The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

514: SIR ARTHUR EVANS.
testimony of a not very
accurate numismatic writer 136
as to the existence of this much later issue belonging
to a time when the silver coinage of Honorius was
otherwise non-existent. The statement seems to have
been due to some confusion with a common siliqua
of Constaiitius II.
type
The coins of Constantino III here found, however,
which refer to four August!, show that the Coleraine
FIG. 7. Half silver ingot, Coleraine Hoard,
hoard was buried in or after A.D. 408, 137 at precisely
the same epoch, that is, as the Stanmore deposit
described above.
Three silver half-ingots, two impressed with stamps,
were found with the coins 138 and the other objects.
136
Among the exergual inscriptions given in this account are
"MOPS", constantly repeated, for MDPS and "PLVS"
for PLVC.
137 Both bore the reverse legend VICTORIA AAA CCCC.
There was a Lyons piece with the exergual inscription LDPV.
Cp. Cohen, viii, p. 199, No. 7, where, however, this exergual legend
is not given.
138 For the
pp. 379, 380.
ingots see Willers, Num. Zeitsclir.,
They are now in the British Museum.
xxx (1899),