The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

NOTICES OF RECENT NUMISMATIC PUBLICATIONS. 355
followed is the same as in the first edition, the coins of each
reign being placed under the different mints arranged in alphabetical
order, the different types being numbered. A list of the
names of the moneyers and the towns at which they exercised
their calling is appended to the catalogue of the coins of each
reign. The Plates showing the different types are increased in
number from ten to fourteen, but the map showing the localities
of the numerous finds and the original Introduction are not
repeated in this second edition, which is, moreover, a large
octavo instead of a quarto. The identification of the places of
mintage with their modern representatives has been carefully
considered, but in some few cases the attribution has not been
decided, so that some puzzling questions are still left for the
English reader. Including
imitation of the pennies of
those of the Irish coins struck in
^thelred II. and Cnut, to which a
section is dedicated, the mint towns are upwards of a hundred
in number ; but it would be beyond the province of this notice
to discuss them. It may, however, be suggested that the
Ricyebyrig of the coins may quite as probably be Richborough
near Sandwich as Rising Castle in Norfolk, or Richborough
(Risborough ?) in Buckinghamshire. Although the site of this
once famous town is now a mere mass of ruins, it was still
occupied in Saxon times, as is proved by coins from the reign
of Offa * to that of ^Ethebred II. having been found there. It is,
indeed, said to have been the port at which St. Augustiu landed
in A.D. 597.
In conclusion we cannot do better than cite a few words from
Prof. Hildebrand's new Preface which all our readers will
endorse.
" This collection is of its kind the largest that exists,
and therefore has special historical importance, not alone for
Sweden, in whose soil these coins were deposited, but also for
the country from which they were carried away." J. E.
The Numismatische Zeitsclirift, Band XII. 1st Semester,
contains the following articles :
1. Address of the President, A. Ritter von Pawlowski.
2. F. Kenner. Review of the first decade of the Numismatic
Society of Vienna.
3. The Medal of the Society.
4. C. v. Ernst. The art of coining, from the earliest times
till the present day.
5. H. C. Reichardt. On the coins of Canatha in Decapolis_
i C. Roach Smith, " Richborough, Reculver, and Lymne,"
p. 157.