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V.PALMEK'S GREEN HOARD.ON the 1st of May last year in the course of digging outthe foundations for a house in Palmer's Green, N., aworkman came across a number of silver coins (pennies)which appear to have been buried together, but whichhad not been placed in any kind of vessel. It is, however,quite probable that the coins had been wrapped insome cloth or linen which had entirely perished.Hadthis not been so, the coins would in course of time havegot separated and to some extent scattered. As it wasthey were all pretty close together.The hoard was claimed by the Crown as treasure-trove,and, as customary, an inquest was held and the claim ofthe Treasury was allowed. The coins were as usual sentby the Treasury to the Museum, where I made a carefulexamination of them. The result of this examinationwas as follows : The hoard consisted in all of 217 coins(one only a portion). Of these 208 were pennies ofHenry III of the long-cross type, struck at various mintsin England and of various issues. Five pennies wereIrishof the same reign and were struck in Dublin, and4 others were of Alexander III of Scotland.I give a list of the coins with descriptions