Further Remarks upon a Denarius of the Venturian Family, with an Etruscan Inscription on the Reverse

Read before the Royal Society on November 19, 1772, Further Remarks upon a Denarius of the Venturian Family, with an Etruscan Inscription on the Reverse, formerly considered. In a Letter to Matthew Maty, M. D. Sec, R. S. from the Reverend John Swinton, B. D. F. R. S. Custos Archivorum of the University of Oxford, Member of the Academy degli Apatisti at Florence, and of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona in Tuscany contributes to the study of numismatics through the ages. The Denarius, in the Roman currency system, was a small silver coin first minted about 211 BC during the Second Punic War. This letter adds much to the identification of one specimen of the coin.

The item is a First Edition, extracted and disbound from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 63, Part I For the Year 1773, pages 22-29, with an accompanying extended plate.. This volume of the transactions was published in London in 1774. The pages, which measure approximately 6 ¼ x 8 ½ inches, are tanned, but the text is clear and easily read. The illustrations above show the first page of the document and the extended plate with its drawings of the coin.

John Swinton (1703–1777) was a British writer, academic, Fellow of the Royal Society, Church of England clergyman and orientalist. In 1731 he was a fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, but migrated to Christ Church in 1745. He contributed to George Sales' Universal History. Swinton also contributed articles on the transcription of the 'Ruins of Palmyra. Beginning in 1749, Swinton donated a number of Roman coins to the collection at Christ Church. From 1767 until the year of his death he was Keeper of the Archives at Oxford University. [Wikipedia]

Matthew Maty (1718–1776), originally Mattieu Maty, was a Dutch physician and writer of Huguenot background, and after migration to England secretary of the Royal Society and the second principal librarian of the British Museum. [Wikipedia]