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COINAGE AND CURRENCY IN ROMAN BRITAIN. 509
Society of Antiquaries by its President, J.Milles, 127 which
was found in September of the preceding year in the
Tower of London "in digging for the foundations of
a new office for the Board of Ordnance ". Having
sunk to a great depth, and broken through foundations
of ancient buildings, the discovery was made on the
natural ground, and, as is supposed, even below the
level of the present bed of the river. The find consisted
of the silver ingot reproduced in Fig. 6 and three
solidi, two of Arcadius and one of Honorius. The
latter were of the common type, 128 with the reverse
legend VICTORIA AVCCC and COMOB (=Comitis
obryziacus) in the exergue. The solidi of Arcadius bore
in the field the letters R-M and M-D,that of Honorius
M-D, showing that they were respectively from the
mints of Eome and Milan.
The ingot (Fig. 6), of the usual double-axe like shape,
" 4 inches long, 2| inches in the broadest part and 1|
in the narrowest "
had been first cast, then beaten out
to quite fine edges at the ends. In the centre it bears
a stamp with the inscription
EXOFFE
HONORINI
This seems to be a miswriting for
" 7
Archaeologia, v (1779J.
128
Emperor holding standard and globe and setting
his loot on
a captive. Sabatier, Med. lyz,, PL iv. 2 (Arcadius); Cohen, vm,
p. 185, No. 44 (Honorius).
Haverfield, Additamenta Quinta C. I. L., vn, p. 640, ad L. n.
1196; H. Willers, Num. Zeitschr., xxxi, p. 369 (Bronzeimer wn
Hemmoor (1901), PP - 237 seqq.) had suggested EX OF FL
The inscription was courageously read by Milles (op. at., p. A
"EXOFFICHONORII".