The early nineteenth-century Jackson collection of coins from Carthage

Volume 6 of the Numismatic Chronicle records that during the Society's meeting held on 23 February 1843, 'Dr. Outram, F.R.S., exhibited a case of gold, silver and copper Roman, Greek and Cufie coins, collected by RearAdmiral Jackson and Sir Thomas Read, at the ruins of Carthage'.1 Unfortunately no details of this important ensemble of coins are given and the collection then appears to have disappeared from the numismatic record. However in 1986 the law firm which acts for Glasgow University was clearing out its strongroom prior to moving to new offices, when a collection of classical coins was discovered for which no owner could be traced. The coins