Harptree Hoard

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II.

ON A HOARD OF ROMAN COINS FOUND AT EAST HARPTREE, NEAR BRISTOL. THE County

of Somerset

is

rich in

Roman

numerous hoards of Roman coins have been discovered within

its

boundaries.

remains, and

at various times

At an

early period occupation the metalliferous mines in the Mendip Hills appear to have been worked, and the lead, " " of Roman date are formed, was of which many pigs this source. derived from probably of the

Roman

In the Numismatic Chronicle

for

1866

1

I described a

hoard of about 450 brass coins found in the Mendip Hills, about six miles from Frome, and belonging for the most part to the Constantino period, the latest being of ConAnother hoard of about 350 brass coins, for stantius II.

the greater part struck in the London mint, seems to have been found in the district around Bristol, and was also described by

me

in 1885. 2

These coins were likewise of

the Constantine period, the latest being of Constantino II.

A far larger hoard what

later date,

of silver coins, belonging to a

some-

was discovered somewhere in the same

neighbourhood above twenty years ago, and came into possession.

The

list

of the types that

it

my

comprised I hope

on some future occasion to communicate to the Society Num. Chron., N.S. vol. vi. p. 157. Num. Chron. 3rd S., vol. v. p. 118.

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