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ROMAN COINS.II9. Head of Claudius 1example.DIVVS. CLAVDIUS. AVGVSTV8.A carpentuni drawn by four horses.In the exergue EX. s.c.10. Head of Claudius ... 2 examples.XI. CLAVD. CAESAR. AVG. P.M. TR. VI. IMP. XI.Victory pointing with a eaduceus to a serpent,PACl. AVGVSTAE.11. Head of Claudius. ... 1example.CLAVD. CAESAR. AVG. P.M. TR. POT. IMP. X.An oak wreath, within which. S.P.Q.R. P.P. OB. c.s." mAs regards the same find of coins Mr. M. J. Walhouse u " says: Thisdiscovery took place just before I joined the district. I took casts ofsome of the coins, which by order of Grovermnent were sent to Madraswhether there melted in the mint or reserved in the museum I knownot.The coins were doubtless all of well-known and ' edited ' types \a short description may, however, b& archseologically interesting. Ofthe 522, there were 134 bearing the head of Augustus with inscriptionCAES. AVGVSTVS. Divi. F. PATER. PATRIAE, on the reverse a trophy ofarms between two standing figures and legend C.L. CAESARIS. AVGVSTI. F.cos. DESIG. PRINC. JWENT ;and 378 bore the head of Tiberius withinscription TI. CAESAR. DIVI. AVG. F. AVGVSTVS, on the reverse the emperorseated, with POXTIF. MAXIM. Of the remainder, two bore the head ofClaudius and legendTI. CLAVD. CAESAR. AVG. P.M. TR. vi. IMP. xi, onthe reverse a wtnged figure pointing with a wand to a snake, andinscription PACI. AVGVSTAE another bore the head of;Claudius withDIVVS. CLAVDIVS. AVGVSTVS, on the reverse a chariot drawn by fourhorses abreast, with letters EX. s. c. There were two other types ofClaudius, one bearing on the reverse a female seated, the other a wreathenclosing letters and two coins of;Caligula bearing the emperor's head,on the reverse of one a head surrounded with rays. A single examplebore a head of Augustus with AVGVSTVS. DIVI. F. and on the reverseDiana carrying a spear, accompanied by a deer or hound, and legendIMP. x. Two remaining types were indistinct, one bearing a sort ofarch."In his Remarks on some IcficJ;/discovered Roman gold coins (1851),Captain Drury says: " A l2 most interesting discovery of a largebeen made in thequantity of ancient Koman gold coins has latelyneighbourhood of Cannanore on the Malabar coast, not only remarkablefor the numbers found (amounting to some hundreds) but also fortheir wonderful state of preservation. Many appear almost as fresh asonthe day they were struck the outline of the figuresis so sharp anddistinct, and the inscriptions so clear and legible. With very fewexceptions, they are all of gold, and of the age of Imperial Rome fromAugustus downwards, several of them being coeval with the earliestdays of the Christian era. From what we have been able to learn,regarding their first appearance,it seems that a few were brought intothe town of Calicut and offered for sale in the bazaar by some poornatives, who, naturally supposing from their shining appearance, thatthey were worth perhaps some trifle, gladly bartered them away for a10Madras Journal of Literature and Science, 1844, vol. xiii, p. 212.11Indian Antiquities, 1876, vol. v, p. 239, foot-note.12 Journ. As. Soc., Beng., 1852, vol. xx, pp. 371-387.