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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society38
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Coin Collection10
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hides and skins12
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manuscripts, hebrew -- 18th century -- texts.4
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Academie Des Sciences9
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Doin, G T (1794-1845)4
Doin, G. T4
Poutet, Jean Joseph Etienne4
Roland, Jean-Marie4
Roland, Jean-Marie (1734-1793)4
Turner, Daniel (1667-1741)3
Anonymous2
Barois, Jacques2

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Coin

Denomination: AE11

Date(s): 359 - 336 BCE

Issuer/creator: Philip II

Place: uncertain Macedonian mint

Material: copper alloy


Archive Item

Letter to Ralph Thoresby from Charles Towneley, Towneley, Lancashire

15 Oct 1700

Regarding the iguana, skin of a West Indian animal, and Roman coins found in Lancashire

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Archive Item

Note of receipts

1706-07

Note of receipts of payments, measurements for 'hangin[g] in the Olive room' and 'measure for a trunk for the snake skin'.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip

Date(s): 166- or 167- ?

Manuscript: Lt 40

Contents: Translation of Martial, 'Epigrams', XII.45 on Phoebus' goat-skin headgear; with some revisions or corrections

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 47-6 BCE

Issuer/creator: Quintus Metellus Scipio; Eppius

Place: Africa

Material: silver


Archive Print Item

The sheeps skin pull'd off from the wolf's back: or, The uncasing of the knight : Being a satyrical copy of verses on the abominable and treasonable practices of a pagan knight with a Christian name, now in the Tower

[1680]

The knight is sometimes identified with Sir William Waller, but the piece appears to refer to Robert Peyton's rôle in the proceedings concerned with the Meal-Tub Plot. Verse - "Of all the plots we ...

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Archive Item

Payments No 1

Mar 1726-Jan 1732

'Account of money disbursed for my master's use' Includes references to payments for the new building at Low Hall - see the book of particulars At back: note of buck skins sent for dressing, Aug 172...

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 105 BCE

Issuer/creator: Lucius Thorius Balbas

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 56 BCE

Issuer/creator: Faustus Cornelius Sulla

Place: Rome

Material: silver

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Coin

Denomination: tetradrachm

Date(s): 275-270 BCE

Issuer/creator: Alexander III (posthumous issue)

Place: Pella, Macedonia

Material: silver


Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 42 BCE

Issuer/creator: Gaius Vibius Varus

Place: Rome

Material: silver