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KOYAL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 13
The President exhibited a series of the silver coins from
the find discussed in his paper and a solidus of Valentinian.
1^. VICTORIA AVCG of the London mint, with mm.
AVC OB.
Sir Arthur Evans made a series of communications on
the " Coinage and Silver currency in Koman Britain from
Valentinian I to Constantine III". A great hoard con-
sisting of 2,042 late Koman silver pieces found many years
since in the North Mendips, which had passed into the late
Sir John Evans's possession, was now for the first time
described. Two siliquae from this hoard struck by Magnus
Maximus at Londinium under its new name of " Augusta"
were already known, but the hoard contained many other
pieces of interest, including a series of so-called Silver
Medallions shown to represent double-siliquae or pound
silver. That the name " Miliarensia ", though not strictly
applicable, attached itself to these seems highly probable.
The hoard also supplied new evidence as to a series of coins
of small denomination struck from Gratian's time onwards
representing half-siliquae.
A further communication for the first time called atten-
tion to some numismatic evidence indicating a revival of
the London Mint (closed since 326 A. D.) by Valentinian I.
Double-siliquae of this Emperor and his colleagues were cited
bearing the exergual legend S. M. L. A. P. not found in any
Continental mint. This was the epoch when the name of
Augusta was supplanting that of Londinium ;
the proposed
reading S(acra) M(oneta) L(ondinii) A(ugustae) P(rima)
(sc. officina) reflected this transitional usage. The revival
of the London Mint seems therefore to have been part
of the great work of restoration effected in Britain by
Valentinian's general Theodosius in 367. Its activity
was specially connected with the " sportulary " issues at
the time of the Quinquennial festivals.
In a concluding communication attention was called to