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COINS OF THE AURIOL FIND CLASS
B. V. Head, Historia Numorum, Ilnd Edit., 1911, p. I.
H. de la Tour, Atlas de Monthlies gauhises. Paris, 1892.
E. Babelon, Traite des mommies grecques et romaines, He Partie, t. I,'p. I572sqq. (PI. lxxxi-lxxxv). Paris, 1907.
In conformity with the arrangement adopted by Head, in his Ristoria Numorum, an arrangement which we have
strictly followed throughout this Catalogue, the coins of the Auriol Find Class in the Weber collection are described
here, under this general heading.
The principal finds of these coins have been made at Saint-Remv in Provence, 1834, Cavaillon, Volterra, Velia,
Figueiras, 1868, Morella, 1862, Rosas and Ampurias, but the most important hoard was discovered at Auriol, in the
Department of the Bouches-du-Rhone, 1867, hence the name under which this class of coins is usually designated.
These coins, which consist of small divisions of a drachm of 60-62 grains, Thirds, Sixths, Twelfths, and Twenty-
fourths, were apparently the earliest coins circulated, and later imitated, in Spain, South of France, and littoral of
the West Mediterranean.
The standard of the coins is that used at Velia, Cumae, Neapolis, and during the first period at Poseidonia.
D r Head remarks " that the varieties found in Spain are less archaic in style than those of the Auriol hoard ".