The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

434 SIR ARTHUR EVANS.
Constantine the Great's time to that of Gratian. 3
father there made the following statement :
My
" A far
larger hoard of silver coins belonging to a somewhat
later date was discovered somewhere in the same
neighbourhood above twenty years ago and came into
my possession. The list of types that it comprised
I hope on some future occasion to communicate to the
Society."
Dis aliter placitum. Two unique siliquae of Magnus
Maximus from this find, referring to the London mint
under the name ofAugusta, have been already published,
by my father in the Numismatic Chronicle in 1867.4
But his intention of giving a full account of this
discovery was never carried out.
Since any reasons for reticence as to the matter no
longer exist, I feel in a special way called on to publish
from my father's papers a catalogue of this hoard, the
sorting and preliminary listing of which was, indeed,
one of my own earliest numismatic exercises. As a large
part of the hoard also passed into my own hands, I have
been able to supply additional materials as to the weights
of the various classes of coins there represented.
Of the provenance of the hoard it is impossible to
say more than that according to my own traditional
information it was found in the North Mendip region
not far from Bristol. Here it may be convenient to
refer to it as the " North Mendip Hoard ". It is by far
the largest of the finds of this West Country region,
the number of the silver pieces discovered amounting
to 2,042.
The earliest specimen in the hoard is a single
* J. Evans, " On a Hoard of Roman Coins found at East Harptree,
near Bristol," Num. Chron., 1888, pp. 22-46.
4 Num. Chron., 1867 (N.S. vii), pp. 62, 331. See below, p. 438.