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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