Thomas Snelling

Snelling carried on business as a coin dealer and bookseller at 163 Fleet Street, London, next to the Horn Tavern (later the Anderton's Hotel).

[2][3] Snelling's name occurs as a purchaser at London coin-sales c.1766; and among his numismatic customers was William Hunter the anatomist.

[1] Snelling's coins, medals, and antiques were sold by auction at Langford's, Covent Garden, 21–24 January 1774.

[1] There are three portrait medals of Snelling in the British Museum, by G. Rawle, Lewis Pingo, and John Kirk.

On the title-pages and plates of his books Snelling usually inserted the advertisement: "Who buys and sells all sorts of coins and medals.

Thomas Snelling
Illustration from Snelling's A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of Scotland