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from that of the more Hellenic
The San'a group, mainly imitated from the coins of Athens,
evidently belongs to a later period. With these the magnificent
volume of M. Schlumberger has made us well acquainted, but
the possessors of this work will do well attentively to study
Mr. Head's comment upon it.
On Roman numismatics we have had but few communica-
tions. In one of these, on the coins ordinarily attributed to
Livia, which has been seat us by the veteran Dr. A. Colsoo, of
Noyon, an attempt
the legends PIETAS, IVSTITIA, and SALVS AVGVSTA
is made to attribute the female heads with
respectively, to Julia Livia, wife of Drusus ; Livia, wife of
Augustus, and Julia, his daughter. The subject is one on which
speculation is permissible, but time will show to what extent
the author's conclusions can be generally accepted.
In an interesting note on some discoveries of Roman coins,
our honorary member, Mr. C. Roach Smith, has given us details
of various hoards, for the most part deposited during the reign
of Aurelian. The coins in such hoards usually commence with
those of Valerian ; but in some instances a few coins of rather
earlier date occur, though in the hoard of Jublains twelve coins
of the higher Empire are reported to have been present among
nearly 4,500 coins, mostly of Tetricus. As there is a complete
it seems
blank between the reigns of Commodus and Valerian,
to me not impossible that a separate small hoard of earlier
date may accidentally have been mixed with a far larger hoard
of the usual character. In the Baconsthorpe hoard, of which
it is to be regretted that we have not more detailed statistics,
the earliest coins seem to have been of Gordian III. The
general absence of coins of the early Emperors
from hoards
deposited about A.D. 272, appears to prove that by that time
they had dropped out of circulation, and strengthens the view
that hoards such as that of Procolitia, comprising
coins from
the period of Marc Antony to that of Gratian, cannot represent