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No. Wt.<br />

59<br />

PI. 2<br />

60<br />

PI. 2<br />

6l<br />

PI. 2<br />

5.67<br />

80<br />

5.18<br />

82.6<br />

5 3 5<br />

Metal<br />

Size.<br />

Nl8<br />

ATi8<br />

N 17<br />

BRITANNIA<br />

DESCRIPTION<br />

BRITANNIA<br />

Uninscribed.<br />

Portions of a laureate bust, which has assumed the form of a cruci-<br />

form ornament ; the leaves of the wreath in a straight line across<br />

the field ; to left, two triangular ornaments divided by a cross-<br />

band ; in front, two open crescents above cross-band, and diago-<br />

nal line below.<br />

fyL. Horse galloping to r.; above, wing ornament and two pellets ;<br />

behind horse's tail, three parallel horizontal lines, the centre dotted<br />

and below X and elliptical ornament ; beneath horse, rosette with<br />

pellet in centre. — Stater.<br />

Convex flan. COM •<br />

Now in the British Museum.<br />

VERICA<br />

Second half of First Century B. C.<br />

F on a sunk tablet.<br />

fyL. VI R. Horseman galloping to r., with a short sword in his hand<br />

REX<br />

behind, lituus-shaped object, beneath which *> : border ofdots. —<br />

Stater.<br />

Cf. Evans, <strong>Ancient</strong> British <strong>Coins</strong>, PI. 11, 10.<br />

CUNOBELINUS<br />

First half of First Century A. D.<br />

[C] A - MV on either side of ear of corn.<br />

tyL. CVN (below). Horse prancing to r. ; above, a branch between<br />

two pellets : plain border. — Stater.<br />

Cf. Evans, <strong>Ancient</strong> British <strong>Coins</strong>, PI. ix, 8-9.<br />

Head, Hist. Num., 191 1, p. 11 (fig. 3).<br />

— 16<br />

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