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6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE
8. Bulletin historique de la Societe des Antiquaires de la
Morinio. 29 me annee, N.S., 115 e livraison.
Mr. B. V. Head exhibited on behalf of Mr. A. Grant four
Roman imperial aurei : two of Julia Domna, one with the
reverse IVNO, Juno holding a patera and sceptre, at her feet a
peacock, and the other with the inscription, MATEI CASTBORVM,
the empress standing before an altar sacrificing in front of two
military standards, a type not uncommon on silver coins, but
of extreme rarity on gold ; one of Caracalla and Geta, as
Cohen, p. 451, No. 4 ; and one of Plautilla, obv. bust of the
empress to right, rev. PBOPAGO IMPEBI, Plautilla and Caracalla
joining hands.
Mr. Durlacher exhibited a specimen of the silver medal
formerly given by the Corporation of London to sworn
brokers.
Mr. Krumbholz showed a Spanish dollar countermarked as a
five-shilling token by the Deanston Cotton Mills.
Mr. E. H. Willett communicated a paper on the resident
character of the office of Monetarius in Saxon times, and Mr.
C. Boach Smith an account of certain large finds composed
chiefly of corns of Tetriciis, which are frequent both in this
country and in France, and which must have been concealed
about the period of the reunion of the provinces of Gaul and
Britain to the Roman Empire. See " Numismatic Chronicle,"
3rd Series, Vol. i. pp. 82 and 24.
JANUABY 20, 1881.
JOHN EVAKS, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., President, in the chair.
The following presents were announced and laid upon the
table :
1. Aarboger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historic. Pts.
24, 1878; 14, 1879; 1, 1880, with Tilteg for 1877 and
1878. From the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries,
Copenhagen.