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482 SIR ARTHUR EVANS.
regarrisoning the Castra and limites, he made a
triumphant return South in 369, and recrossed the
Channel on his way to rejoin his master at Treves.
That one episode in this great work of restoration
was the reopening of the mint at London may be
inferred from a very interesting group of silver coins
struck by Valentinian and his colleagues to which
attention is now for the first time directed.
The coin which first arrested my own attention
was a silver piece of Valentinian the Elder of the
double siliqua or miliarense class [PI. XX, Fig. l].
It was formerly in the collection of Seiior Vidal
Quadras y Ramon at Barcelona, 74 and was acquired by
me at his sale in 1913. This collection contained a
numerous series of these larger silver coins, apparently
derived from a hoard. The large hoards of Eoman
silver coins dating from the last half of the fourth
century have, as is well known, been almost exclusively
confined to Britain, and in most cases to the western
part of our island, especially Somerset, 74 but I have
not been able to trace the provenance of those in
the Vidal Quadras y Ramon Collection. Another coin,
apparently of an identical type from the Garthe Collection,
is mentioned by Cohen, 75
though unfortunately
r3 Paris Catalogue, Dec. 16, &c., 1913, No. 719.
74 See Haverfield, Victoria Count;/ History of Somerset; and cf.
Hill, Xiim. Chron., 1906, pp. 337 seqq.
75 Monnaies Romaines, eel. 2, viii, p. 98, No. 78, "Module 6J-".
The exergual legend is given as SMLAP, and the palm-branch
is not mentioned. The exergual letters that appear on this
group of coins are constantly omitted from Cohen's lists under
Valentinian I, Valens, and Gratian. It is difficult to explain this
omission. Gnecchi, Medaylioni Romani, i, p. 98, No. 32, gives the
weight of this piece as 4-92 gnu., and refers to it as " Gia Coll.
Weber". It is not in the Weber Catalogue, however.