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474 SIR ARTHUR EVANS.
tinctly barbarous, seems to present a blundered version
of the name either of Theodosius or Honorius. The
reverse, however, with XV in a wreath and AQ. below,
is clear enough. Professor McKenny Hughes, to whose
kind permission the publication of this piece is due,
adds the information that it was found on the
kindly
Upware ridge opposite Stretham, Cambs., together
with a silver piece (siliqua) of Julian II from the
Treves mint reading VOTIS V MVLTIS X. The coins
lay with the remains of two skeletons, and each had
served as one of Charon's obols.
On their reverse these coins show X and XV respectively
within the usual laurel-wreath that elsewhere
contains the enumeration of the Vota. There can be
no reasonable doubt that the figures in the present
series have a similar signification, of which, indeed, no
one familiar with the contemporary coinage would be
for a moment in doubt. What remains uncertain is
whether we should regard these all as decennial pieces,
and see in the respective figures a reference to the
solution of the Decennalia Vota and the susception of
the Quindecennalia, as in the common legend VOTIS
X MVLTIS XV, or whether we should regard them
as representing two successive issues, one in honour of
the Decennalia, the other of the Quindecennalia. The
latter appears to be on the whole the more reasonable
assumption.
A figure of type F is given by Cohen in his section
dealing with the Constantinian series reading VRBS
ROMA. 60
It is of similar small module, but the
weight, as usual, is not recorded. M. Feuardent, how-
50 Descr. des Monn. Romaines, ed. 2, vii, p. 329, No. 11.