The John Bargrave Collection

An assemblage of coin: fabricated by authority of the Archbishops of Canterbury: all the metropolitan coins, whether already published, or latent in private cabinets, so far at least as the author's correspondence extends, are here engraved in one view, and illustrated with a proper commentary: an essay is annexed, in which some account is given of the origine, the variable fate and fortune, and the final determination of these inferior and subordinate mints: and something concerning the nature and particular circumstances of them, with other incidental matters relative to the subject, is occasionally noticed: with intention of throwing some light on a branch of the science of medals both curious and copious, though but imperfectly considered by our English medalists: to the whole are subjoined, two dissertations on similar subjects: I. On a fine coin of AElfred the Great, with his head; II. On the famous Unic of the late Mr. Thoreby, supposed to be a coin of St. Edwin, but shewn to be a penny of Edward the Confessor: wherein a plan is laid down for re-engraving Sir Andrew Fountaine's tables of the Saxon coins