The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

THE OFFICE OF MONETARIUS IN SAXON TIMES. 35
Atsera
Blacera
Godelif
Sumerlido
Arcetel
lola
Othgrim
Stircol
of Thetford.
' ofYork -
Of the above list, which could be largely increased, one
name is strikingly local, and which could have belonged
to no other than to a native of the town, and that is
SNOTER ON SN (Notts of Nottingham). Here the
moiieyer actually takes his name from that of his town.
Another less striking instance, but which at the least
is a curious coincidence, is the occurrence of the moneyer
Wolsey, of Ipswich. A fact attesting the antiquity of the
family of the great Cardinal, who was born in the chief
town of Suffolk.
The York and Thetford mints present many little
peculiarities worthy of study. They both have many
uncommon names and there are slight differences of type,
and striking amongst others may be cited the singular
annulets on the coins of the former town; and I may
mention as an instance of the importance of the system of
localisation, that it was entirely from the singularity of
names peculiar to Thetford that I was enabled to confirm
Mr. Evans's suggested attribution to that town of the coins
reading J7IODFO, as the names Atsera, Blacera, Sumer-
lide, all occur on coins reading both DEOTFO and J7IODFO
and on those of no other town.
If we examine the table before referred to with a view
to ascertaining whether the towns in which the same
name occurs are close together or far removed from one
another, the evidence is most conflicting, as a glance at