The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

XVII.
NOTES ON THE COINAGE AND SILVER CUR-
RENCY IN ROMAN BRITAIN FROM VALEN-
TINIAN I TO CONSTANTINE III.
(SEE PLATE XX.)
1. ON A LARGE HOARD OF LATE ROMAN SILVER
COINS PROM THE NORTH MENDIP, INCLUDING
SlLIQUAE STRUCK AT AUGUSTA (LoNDINIUM).
IT is well known that the "West of England especially
the Mendips and adjoining region has been the scene
of repeated finds of considerable hoards of late Roman
coins, mostly silver, dating
from the last half of the
fourth century of our era or the first years of the fifth.
The most recent is that from G-rovely Wood, Wilts an
,
account of which was laid before this Society by
Mr. Hill in 1906, 1
consisting of silver coins from
Constantius II to Arcadius.
A general survey of the Somerset hoards has been
given by Professor Haverfield in the Victoria County
History? and several have already been referred to by
my father in the account of the East Harptree find
which he laid before this Society in 1888. It contained
1,496 silver pieces, the dates of which extend from
Num. Chron., 1906, pp. 329 seqq.
Victoria County History, " Somerset," i, pp. 354, 355.