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NUMISMATIC CHEONICLE,

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JOUKNAL OF THE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY.

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OF THE

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY.

EDITED BY

SIR JOHN EYANS, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., Y.P.S.A.,

CORRESPONDANT DE I/INSTITUT DE FRANCE,

BARCLAY Y. HEAD, D.C.L., PH.D.,

KEEPER OF COINS, BRITISH MUSEUM,

MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE,
HON. MEMBER OF THE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY OF VIENNA,

HERBERT A. GRTJEBER, F.S.A.,

ASSISTANT-KEEPER OF COINS, BRITISH MUSEUM,

AND

EDWARD J. RAPSON, M.A., M.R.A.S.,

PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT, UNIVERSITY COLL., LONDON.

FOURTH SERIES. VOL. III.

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1903.

LONDON :

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
DUKB STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E., AND GREAT WINDMILL STREET, W.

CONTENTS.

ANCIENT NUMISMATICS.

PAGE

The History and Coinage of Artaxerxes III., his Satraps
and Dependants. By Sir Henry H. Howorth, K.C.I.E.,
F.E.S 1

The Numerical Letters on Imperial Coins of Syria. By

George Macdonald, M.A. ...... 105

Notes on some Phocian Obols. By Neville Langton . , 197

Classification Chronologique des Emissions Monetaires de
1'Atelier de Nicomedie pendant la Periode Constanti-
nienne. By Jules Maurice . . . . . .211

Greek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1902. By

Warwick Wroth . 317

MEDLEVAL AND MODERN NUMISMATICS.

The Coinage of William Wood, 1722-1723. By Philip Nelson,

M.D 47

A Find of Silver Coins at Colchester. By H. A. Grueber,

F.S.A Ill

The Gold Coinage of the Reign of Henry VI. By Frederick

A. Walters, F.S.A. . .286

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PAGE

George William de Saulles. Obituary Notice. By John H. ^

Pinches .

A Find of Coins of Alfred the Great at Stamford. By H. A. ^

Grueber, F.S.A. .

ORIENTAL NUMISMATICS.
Coinage of the East India Company. By J. M. C. Johnston 71

Two Coins relating to the Buwayhid and 'Okaylid Dynasties
of Mesopotamia and Persia. By J. G. Covernton, M.A.

History and Coinage of Malwa (Part L). By L. White King,

F.S.A. 356

MISCELLANEA.

Errata in Mr. Crump and Mr. Johnson's "Notes on 'A
Numismatic History of the Eeign of Henry I.' By
W. F. Andrew." .

Roman Coins found at Southwark

Coins found on the Premises of the Worshipful Company of

Carpenters. . . .102

Ancient British Coins of Verulamium and Cunobelinus . . 192

An Unpublished, or Unique Half-crown of Charles I. . . 193

The Mughal Mints of India 194

Malwa Coins of Bahadur Shah of Guzerat . . . 314

A Round Copper Coin of Ghiyath Shah of Malwa (?) . . 316

Coins of the Nomes of Egypt 399

Some Coins of Caria and Lycia , . . 399

CONTENTS. Ill

NOTICES OF EECENT NUMISMATIC PUBLICATIONS.

PAGE

Medaillen des italienischen Renaissance. Von Cornelius

von Fabriczy . . . . . . . 190

LIST OF PLATES CONTAINED IN VOL. III.

PLATES

I., II. Wood's Irish Coinage.

III. Coins of the East India Company.

IV. Short-cross Pennies (Henry II.-IIL).
V. Phocian Coins.

VI., VII. Monnaies de Nicomedie.
VIII., IX. Gold Coinage of Henry VI.
X.-XII. Acquisitions of the British Museum in 1902.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY

PKOCEEDINGS OF THE NUMISMATIC
SOCIETY.

SESSION 19021903.

OCTOBER 16, 1902.

SIR JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S.,
V.P.S.A., F.G.S., President, in the Chair.

The President proposed, and Sir Augustus Prevost seconded,
a vote of condolence with the family of the late Mr. Alfred E.
Copp, who for over twenty years had filled the office of
Hon. Treasurer to the Society.

A. H. Baldwin, Esq., and Edward Charles Davey, Esq.,
were elected Members of the Society.

The following Presents were announced and laid upon the
table :

1. Monatsblatt der Numismatischen Gesellschaft in Wien.
Nos. 226-230.

2. Foreningen til Norske Fortidsmindesmerkers Bevaring.
Aarsberetning for 1901.

3. Academic royale de Belgique ; Bulletin de la Classe des
Lettres, 1901 ; and Nos. 1-8, 1902.

4. A sketch catalogue of Australian copper tokens. Revised
edition. By M. H. Long. From the Author.

4 PROCEEDINGS OF THE

5. Bulletin de Numismatique, Mars-Juillet, 1902.

6. Bulletin international de Numismatique. Nos. 2-3.

7. Una Medaglia d' Argento di Vincenzio Bellini. By
L. Pasetti. From the Author.

8. Journal of Hellenic Studies. Vol. xxii. Pt. 1.

9. Revue Beige de Numismatique. 3 me et 4 me livr., 1902.

10. Bulletin de la Societe des Antiquaires de 1'Ouest.
l er trim., 1902.

11. Revue Numismatique. 2 me trim., 1902.

12. American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. vi. Nos.
2 and 3.

13. Archaeologia Cantiana. Vol. xxv.

14. Thirty-second Annual Report of the Deputy Master of
the Royal Mint, 1901.

15. Proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society
of Philadelphia, 1899-1901.

16. Le piu antiche Monete di Napoli. By L. Correra.
From the Author.

17. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.
Vol. xxxii. Pt. 2.

18. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American
Numismatic and Archaeological Society of New York, 1902.

19. American Journal of Numismatics. April-June, 1902.

20. Alcuni Acquisti del R. Gabinetto numismatico di Brera.
By S. Ambrosoli. From the Author.

21. La Gazette Numismatique. Mai-Juillet and Oct,
1902.

22. Papers of the British School at Rome. Vol. i.

23. Report on the Administration of the Government
Museum, Madras, 1901-2.

24. Dell' Affinita delle Monete di Restituzione e le Monete
dei Nomi d'Egitto. By G. Dattari. From the Author.

Mr. S. B. Boulton exhibited a gold quarter stater of the
British chief Cunobelinus, struck at Camulodunum, and having
on the obverse an ear of corn and the legend CAM. C VN., and

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. O

on the reverse a horse and the legend CVK (Evans, PI. IX.,
11). The occurrence of this chiefs name on both faces is most
unusual on his coins.

Mr. H. W. Taffs showed two pennies of Alfred, and a
groat and two half-groats of Edward III. found at Southend.

Mr. W. Webster exhibited a quarter-noble of Edward III.,
with the letter e( in the centre of the cross on the reverse,
which he attributed to the fourth coinage of that monarch.

Mr. L. Forrer showed some medals and plaques published
by the Societe des Amis de la Medaille Fransaise, and
executed by the artists Gardet, De Vernon, Legastelois,
Niclausse, and Daniel Dupuis.

The President read a paper on some rare or unpublished
Roman coins, among which are two denarii of Galba struck in
Spain ; some aurei of Julia Domna and Caracalla, with
their portraits; of Diadumenian as Caesar, showing two
varieties of portrait ; of Elagabalus, with a representation of
the sacred stone " Elagabal " in a chariot ; of Balbinus, with
reverse type of Victory, the only gold coin known of that
emperor ; and two others of Carausius with figures of Pax,
varying in treatment ; also a very rare denarius of that
emperor with the head of Sol on the reverse. Some of the
gold coins came from the recent finds in Egypt at Minieh and
Alexandria. This paper is printed in Vol. ii., p. 345.

NOVEMBER 20, 1902.
SIR JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., President, in the Chair.

W. C. Boyd, Esq., was unanimously elected Hon. Treasurer
of the Society in succession to the late Alfred E. Copp, Esq.

A letter was read from A. E. G. Copp, Esq., conveying
the thanks of his mother and the other members of his family
for the vote of condolence passed at the previous meeting on

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the death of his father, A. E. Copp, Esq., Hon. Treasurer of
the Society.

Henry Fentiman, Esq., Oswald Fitch, Esq., Francis John
Haverfield, Esq., F.S.A., E. Alfred Jones, Esq., and Henry C.
Ramsden, Esq., were elected Members of the Society.

The foUowing Presents were announced and laid upon the
table :

1. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland,
Vol. xxxii. Pt. 3.

2. Ancient Tokens of Colchester. By E. N. Mason. From
the Author.

3. Monatsblatt der Numismatischen Gesellschaft in Wien.
Nos. 231 and 232.

4. False Shekels. By G. F. Hill. From the Author.

5. Bulletin de la Societe des Antiquaires de 1'Ouest.
2 me trim., 1902.

6. Revue Numismatique. 3 me trim., 1902.

7. American Journal of Numismatics. Vol. xxxvii. No. 1.
1902.

Mr. R. A. Hoblyn exhibited a fine specimen of the Blondeau
pattern half-crown with inscribed edge and dated 1651.

Sir Augustus Prevost exhibited a specimen of the newly-
issued two and half gulden of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland,
the dies for which were executed in 1898.

Mr. F. A. Walters showed a sestertius of Galba with the
reverse legend " Senatus Pietati Augusti," and with a senator
crowning the emperor.

Mr. C. E. Mackerell exhibited two similar coins of Vitellius.

Mr. J. Pinches showed specimens of the University College
of South Wales medal for anatomy, of the Royal Society's
memorial medal of David William Hughes, and a new prize
medal for the Royal Agricultural Society.

Mr. H. W. Taffs showed a pattern penny of Victoria dated
1865.

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Mr. P. Carlyon-Britton read a paper on the rare penny of
Regnald I., King of Northumbria, having the hammer of
Thor on the obverse, and a strung bow with arrow on the
reverse.

Mr. "W. Wroth communicated an account of the Greek
coins recently acquired by the British Museum, amongst
which were copper pieces of Aphytis; Potidaea; Pausanias,
King of Macedon, B.C. 390-389 ; Aegium, with reverse the
boy Zeus standing on a pedestal ; and Naukratis ; also silver
pieces of Larissa with the nymph seated on a hydria and
holding one of her sandals ; of the Federation of the Achaean
cities, being a didrachm of the first Achaean Federation, circa
B.C. 370 ; and of Neandria, Cyme, and Mytilene. The paper
is printed in Vol. ii., p. 313.

DECEMBER 18, 1902.
SIR JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., President, in the Chair.

The President announced that the Council had had under
consideration a proposal to change the hour of the Ordinary
Meetings from 7 P.M. to 6.30 P.M., and suggested that the
question should come up for discussion at the next Ordinary
Meeting of the Society to be held on the 15th January next.
The meeting approved the suggestion of the Council and
ordered that, in accordance with the Statutes, due notice of the
proposed change should be sent to each Member of the
Society.

J. G. Covernton, Esq., was elected a Member of the Society.

The following Presents were announced and laid upon the
table :

1. Journal of Hellenic Studies. Vol. xxii. Pt. 2.

2. Revue Suisse de Numismatique. Tome xi. I 6re livr.

3. Appunti di Numismatica Alessandrina. By G. Dattari.
From the Author.

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4. La Gazette Numismatique. Nov. 1902.

5. Transactions of the Japan Society. Vol. v.

The President exhibited two half-nobles and a quarter-
noble of the annulet coinage of ' Henry VI. These coins
afforded strong evidence that the trefoil-annulet coinage
followed the annulet one and should not be placed last in the
series as proposed by Mr. Kenyon in his Gold Coins of England.
Sir Augustus Prevost exhibited a prize medal presented by
himself, and to be awarded to the company of the 25th
Middlesex Volunteers, composed of porters and messengers in
the employment of the Bank of England. The medal has
portraits of the Bong and Queen on the obverse and a seated
figure of Britannia on the reverse.

Mr. C. A. Mackerell showed a sestertius of Commodus with
the reverse type the Emperor spearing a lion. It resembles
in fabric the medallions of that period.

Mr. F. A. Walters exhibited a denier of Boemund I., struck
at Antioch.

Mr. L. A. Lawrence showed impressions in shellac of the
Waterloo medal by Pistrucci.

Mr. Grueber read a paper on the recent find of silver coins
at Colchester. The find numbered about 10,926 pieces which
were mostly English pennies of the short-cross coinage
(1180-1248). Besides these there was a considerable number
of contemporary Irish and Scottish pennies and a few foreign
deniers esterlins. The writer gave an analysis of the hoard,
which he said confirmed in a most satisfactory manner the
classification of the short-cross money proposed by the
President as far back as 1865. Mr. Grueber was of opinion
that the hoard formed part of the exchange, which took place
on the issue of the long-cross money in 1248, and that it had
been stolen, or concealed, and not unearthed till a few months
ago. This paper is printed in Vol. iii. } p. 111.

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 9

JANUARY 15, 1903.
SIR JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., President, in the Chair.

The following alterations in the Rules relating to the hours
of Meetings of the Society were proposed and carried
unanimously.

Rule 28. For " Business shall commence at seven o'clock
in the evening precisely " read " Business shall commence
at half -past six o'clock in the evening precisely."

Rule 31. For " A General Meeting shall be held annually
on the third Thursday in June at 7 P.M. " read " A General
Meeting shall be held annually on the third Thursday in June
at 6.30 P.M."

Rule 33. For " The Ballot shall commence at 7 P.M. and
close at 8 P.M." read " The Ballot shall commence at 6.30 P.M.
and close at 7 P.M."

Henry Elliott Fox, Esq., Harry Price, Esq., and Max
Rosenheim, Esq., F.S.A., were elected Members of the Society.

The following Presents were announced and laid upon the
table :

1. Numismatic Circular, 1902. From Messrs. Spink and
Sons.

2. Revue Beige de Numismatique. l feve livr., 1903.

3. Kong. Yitterhets Historic och Antiquitets Academiens
Manadsblad. 1897. From the Society.

4. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Yol. vi.,
No. 4, and Yol. xxiv., Pt. 1.

5. J. Laugier : un Numismate Provencal. By Baron
Guillibert. From the Author.

6. Bonner Jahrbiicher. Heft 108-9.

7. Monatsblatt der Numismatischen Gesellschaft in Wien.
No. 233.

8. American Journal of Archaeology. Yol. vi., No. 4, and
Supplement. From the Archaeological Institute of America.

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9. Trois Monnaies Luxembourgeoises. By the Vic te B. de
Jonghe. From the Author.

10. Repertoire General de Medallistique. By Paul Ch.
Stroehlin. From the Author.

The President exhibited a medallion in bronze of the
emperor, Gordian III., having on the reverse the emperor on
horseback, preceded by Victory and accompanied by soldiers.

Mr. G. R. Marten sent for exhibition through the President
a forgery of a half-crown of Victoria made in Sicily, and
another of a shilling of the same reign made in Germany.

Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a denarius of Julia Maesa,
grandmother of Elagabalus, with the unpublished type of
reverse " Fides Militum " seated.

Mr. R. A. Hoblyn showed a series of one-third farthings
struck for currency in Malta, including one of Edward VII.

Mr. Boyd gave an account of a find of Roman coins made
at Salbris, near Romorantin in the Department of the Loire.
The find consisted of from six to seven hundred base denarii
extending from the reign of Valerian to that of Aurelian,
A.D. 253-275, and included many pieces of Gallienus,
Postumus, Victorinus and Tetricus I. and II.

Mr. Grueber read a paper on a small hoard of coins of the
time of Alfred discovered recently at Stamford. Some of the
pennies of Alfred were of the Lincoln and London mints, one
of the latter bearing the moneyer's name on the obverse instead
of the king's. Amongst the halfpennies of Alfred were two of
an unpublished type, bearing on the reverse a monogram
formed of the Greek letters, A and d). There was also a
half denier of Charles the Bald struck at St. Denis. The find
was an interesting one, as several of the coins, which purported
to be of Alfred, were Danish copies of his coins, which may to
a certain degree be accounted for, as Stamford was one of the
five burgs which were specially set apart by Alfred or his
successor for the occupation of the Danish population.

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FEBRUARY 19, 1903.

SIR HENRY H. HOWORTH, K.C.I.E., Vice-President in the

Chair.

H. Alexander Parsons, Esq., was elected a Member of the
Society.

The following Presents were announced and laid upon the
table :

1. Bulletin international de Numismatique. Vol. i., No. 4.

2. American Journal of Numismatics. Oct., 1902.

3. Bulletin de Numismatique. Oct.-Dec., 1902.

4. Bullettino di Numismatica e del Circolo Numismatico
Milanese. No. 1, 1903.

5. Monatsblatt der Numismatischen Gesellschaft in Wien.
No. 234.

6. Annual Report of the Board of Reports of the Smith-
sonian Institute. 1901.

7. Rivista Italiana di Numismatica. Fasc. 4, 1902.

8. Revue Numismatique. 4 me trim., 1902.

9. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.
Pt. iv., 1902.

10. Bulletin de la Societe des Antiquaires de 1'Ouest.
3 me trim., 1902.

11. Zeitschrift fur Numismatik. Band xxiii. Heft 3 and 4.

12. Academic royale de Belgique. Bulletin de la Classe des
Lettres. Nos. 9-12, 1902.

13. Royal Irish Academy : Proceedings. Vol. xxiv., Pt. 2.

14. Coronation medal in bronze for Hong-Kong. From
Messrs. J. Edwards and Co.

Mr. Horace W. Monckton exhibited two London pennies of
Henry VI. of the rosette-mascle and pine-cone-mascle coinages.

Mr. L. A. Lawrence showed a Canterbury penny of the first
issue of Edward III. with English N'S in the legend and the
portrait of the king resembling that of Edward II.

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Mr. A. H. Baldwin exhibited a copper coin of Carausius
struck at Camulodunum, and having on the reverse a centaur
and the legend " Leg. III. Flavia."

Mr. F. A. Walters read a paper on the gold coinage of
Henry VI. After calling attention to the large amount of
gold coined (according to the Mint records) during the first
six years of this reign as compared with the small amount
during the later years, Mr. Walters gave reasons for attributing
the bulk of Henry VI.'s gold coins to the annulet and not to
the trefoil coinage, as has been done hitherto by English
numismatists. The writer suggested that the flag in the
stern of the ship on some nobles and half-nobles was the
distinguishing mark of the Calais mint both in this and
previous reigns ; and it was also suggested that the fleur-de-lis
on the ship's stern on other pieces denoted the York mint.
He concluded with a classification of the coins of the several
gold issues, which he showed corresponded in a remarkable
manner with those of the silver money.

MARCH 19, 1903.

SIB HENRY H. HOWORTH, KG. I.E., Vice-President in the

Chair.

Oberst-Lieut. M. Bahrfeldt of Halle, Saxony, was elected
an Hon. Member of the Society, and William H. Regan, Esq.,
an ordinary Member.

The following Presents were announced and laid upon the
table :

1. Catalogue of Greek coins in the British Museum : Coins
of Parthia. By Warwick Wroth. From the Trustees of the
British Museum.

2. Appunti di Numismatica Alessandrina. Pt. xvi. By
G. Dattari. From the Author.

3. Bullettino di Numismatica. No. 2. Feb., 1903.

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4. Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1900.

5. Annuaire de PAcademie royale de Belgique, 1903.

6. Archaeologia Aeliana. Vol. xxiv. Pt. III.

7. Berliner Miinzblatter. Jan., 1903.

8. La Gazette Numismatique. Jan., 1903.

9. Monatsblatt der Numismatischen Gesellschaft in Wien,
No. 235.

Mr. L. A. Lawrence exhibited a halfpenny of Edward III. (?)
struck in London. The portrait of the king differed much
from that usually found on Edward's coins, being long and
narrow.

Mr. W. Talbot Ready showed an unpublished drachm of
the fourth century B.C., struck at Atarneus, with head of
Apollo on the obverse and a serpent on the reverse.

Mr. Harry Price exhibited specimens of copper boat-shaped
money from Laos, and an eighteenth-century manuscript
catalogue of a collection of Greek and Roman coins.

Dr. O. Codrington showed a gold coin of the Malay
Peninsula, probably struck at Acheen in the fourteenth
century, and a tutenag copy of a mohur of Shah Jehan.

Mr. Grueber read the first portion of a paper on Roman
copper money of the first century B.C., which included not only
that struck at Rome, but also local issues of the East, Spain,
and Gaul. The writer first dealt with the coinage of the East
which was struck in the names of Mark Antony, P. Canidius
Crassus, the legate of Antony, and Augustus. From analyses
of the coins these issues appeared to be of the semuncial
standard.

APRIL 23, 1903.
SIE JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., President, in the Chair.

The following Presents were announced and laid upon the
table :

1. American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. vii. No. 1.

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2. Revue Nu^ ismatique lflr trim } 190 3.

3. Bulleti de Numismat ique. Jan.-Feb., 1903.

sta Italiana di Numismatica. Fasc. 1, 1903.

5. Academic Royale de Belgique. Bulletin de la Classe des
Lettres. Nos. 1-2, 1903; et de la Classe des Sciences.
No. 1, 1903.

6. Bullettino di Numismatica. Nos. 3-4.

7. Ancient Greek Coins. Vol. ii. Syracuse. By Frank
Sherman Benson. From the Author.

8. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Vol. xix. No. 1.

9. Revue Beige de Numismatique. 2 me livr., 1903.

10. Monatsblatt der Numismatischen Gesellschaft in Wien.
No. 236.

11. American Journal of Numismatics. Jan. -Mar., 1903.
Mr. L. A. Lawrence exhibited a penny of Edward I. (?)

struck at Newcastle, and bearing a similar portrait of the
king to that on the London halfpenny shown by him at the
preceding meeting of the Society.

Mr. P. Carlyon-Britton showed an Anglo-Saxon sceat
found at Dorchester, in Dorsetshire, having on the obverse a
small head surrounded by ten circles, and on the reverse a
fantastic bird.

Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a copper coin of Constantine II.
struck at Treves, with the diademed bust to left on the obverse,
and the legend CONSTANTINVS AVG. within a wreath on
the reverse. It is a combination, somewhat varied, of Cohen,
Monn. Imp. Itom., Nos. 69 and 68.

Mr. F. A. Walters exhibited a half-groat of the heavy
coinage of Henry IV. and two half-groats of the light
coinage.

Mr. Grueber read the second and concluding portion of his
paper on Roman Copper Coinage of the First Century B.C.,"
dealing with the issues in Spain, in Gaul, and of the mint at
Rome. With regard to the last series, the writer, following

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 15

the classification of the late Count de Salis, showed, that in
B.C. 44 and 43, an attempt was made at Rome to revive the
issue of a copper currency which had been in abeyance since
B.C. 80, but that it was not successful. When the re-appearance
of inoneyers' names on the coinage occurred, circa B.C. 16, the
copper currency was again revived, and from that time was
continuous. The analyses of the metals from which these last
coins were struck showed that the sestertius and dupondius
were of orichalcum i.e., brass, composed of 75 per cent, copper
and 25 per cent, zinc and that the as and quandrans were
practically of pure copper. The current value of the orichalcum
coins was nearly double that of those of pure copper.

MAY 21, 1903.
SIR JOHN EVANS, K.C,B., President, in the Chair.

The following Presents were announced and laid upon the
table :

1. Bulletin International de Numismatique. Vol. ii.,
No. 1.

2. Academic royale de Belgique. Bulletin de la Classe des
Lettres. Nos. 3 and 4, 1903.

3. Notes on Indian coins and seals. By E. J. Rapson.
From the Royal Asiatic Society.

4. A Malay coin. By Col. Gerini. From the Royal Asiatic
Society.

5. Numismatische Zeitschrift. 1902.

6. Monatsblatt der Numismatischen Gesellschaft in Wien.
Nos. 237-238.

16 PROCEEDINGS OF THE

7. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.
Vol. xxxiii. Pt. 1.

8. Bulletin de la Societe des Antiquaires de 1'Ouest.
4 me trim., 1902.

The President exhibited a bronze sestertius of Augustus
struck by the Commune Asiae in B.C. 27, having on the
obverse the head of Augustus and on the reverse the letters
C . A . within a wreath ; and also a dupondius of the same
emperor struck at Lyons with a view of the Altar on the
reverse. The head of Augustus on the obverse is more after
the style of that on medallions. It is figured in Num. Zeitschr.,
Vol. xxxv., PI. v. 9.

Mr. L. A. Lawrence showed an Anglo-Saxon sceat recently
found in Goldsmith Street, Drury Lane, during some
excavations. On the obverse is a floriated whorl and on
the reverse a female centaur.

Mr. F. Willson Yeates exhibited some copper tickets
inscribed on the obverses " Folly," and on the reverses with
the names of " G. Gait " or " Hulbert," which he thought
were used as checks at the Folly Inn near Bathwick.

Mr. W. Webster exhibited a gold medallion of Constantius II.
as Caesar struck at Treves ; having a laureate bust on the
obverse, and on the reverse Constantius crowned by Victory,
raising a female figure wearing a turreted crown and supported
by a soldier. Around, the legend "PIETAS AVGVSTI
NOSTRI." This medallion was evidently struck by
Constantius during his governorship of Gaul, A.D. 332.

Mr. P. Carlyon-Britton read a paper on " Edward the
Confessor and his Coins," in which he proposed some modi-
fications in the order of the types based on what are termed
" mules," i.e.) pieces having the obverse type of one issue
and the reverse type of another. In attempting to fix the
dates of the different issues he was of opinion that when a
change of type took place the reverse dies were issued on the
29th Sept., i.e., Michaelmas ; but that the obverse dies did not

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appear till the Christmas following. In a discussion which
followed, Mr. Grueber criticised Mr. Carlyon-Britton's
arrangement of the earlier types, and said that the attempt to
fix the actual dates of the issues of the new dies was purely
speculative.

JUNE 18, 1903.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

SIR JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S.,
V.P.S.A., F.G.S., President, in the Chair.

The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting were read
and confirmed.

Mr. Horace W. Monckton and Mr. Richard A. Hoblyn
were appointed scrutineers of the ballot for the election of the
Council and the Officers for the ensuing year.

The Report of the Council was then read to the Society.

GENTLEMEN, The Council again have the honour to lay
before you their Annual Report as to the state of the
Numismatic Society.

With much regret they have to announce the death of the
following six Ordinary Members :

G. D. Brown, Esq.

Alfred E. Copp, Esq., Hon. Treas.

H. Syer Cuming, Esq., F.S.A. Scot.

John Gloag Murdoch, Esq.

H. P. Smith, Esq.

J. M. Stobart, Esq.

And of the following Hon. Member :

S. E. Baron Wladimir von Tiesenhausen.

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The Council also regret to announce the resignation of the
following nine Ordinary Members :

W. J. Andrew, Esq., F.S.A.

F. Brayne Baker, Esq.

H. Cassels Kay, Esq.

H. W. Lawrence, Esq.

A. B. Richardson, Esq.

E. J. Sidebotham, Esq., M.B.

C. F. Spink, Esq.

E. Fairfax Studd, Esq.

Lieut.-Col. R. N. Sturt.

On the other hand the Council have much pleasure in
recording the election of the following thirteen Ordinary
Members :

A. H. Baldwin, Esq.

J. G. Covernton, Esq., M.A.

Edward Charles Davey, Esq.

H. Elliott Fox, Esq.
. Harry Fentiman, Esq.

Oswald Fitch, Esq.

F. G. Haverfield, Esq., M.A., F.S.A.

E. Alfred Jones, Esq.

H. Alexander Parsons, Esq.

Harry Price, Esq.

Henry A. Ramsden, Esq.

William Henry Regan, Esq.

Max Rosenheim, Esq., F.S.A.
And of the election of the following Hon. Member :

Oberst-Lieutenant M. Bahrfeldt.

It will be seen from the above statement that an unusual
number of deaths and resignations has been nearly met by an
exceptional number of elections ; the effect of which is to cause

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but slight change in the numerical state of the Society,
which as compared with last year is as follows :

Ordinary. Honorary. Total.

June, 1902 270 23 293

Since elected 13 1 14

Deceased

283
6

24
1

307

Resigned

June, 1903 268 23 291

The Council have to announce that they have awarded the
medal of the Society to M. Leon Gustave Schlumberger, Membre
de 1'Institut de France, in recognition of his services to
Numismatics, more especially in connexion with the coinages
of the Latin East.

The Council have also to announce that they have had
before them a proposal duly made by nine Members, and
supported by a large number of Members of the Society, that
Rule 45 should be amended by the addition of the words
" Every such paper, or, if it be too long, a synopsis of its
contents, shall be read at an Ordinary Meeting of the Society
before insertion in the Chronicle."

After careful consideration the Council, being of opinion
that, if the proposed alteration of the Rules were made, the
regular publication of the Chronicle would be delayed and the
work of the Editors immensely increased, ordered that the
following circular expressing their view be sent to Members of
the Society before the General Meeting.

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY OF LONDON.

Proposed Alteration of Rules.

The Council of the Numismatic Society have had before
them a proposal, strongly supported, that Rule 45 be altered by
the addition at the end thereof of the words, "Every such

I 2

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paper, or, if it be too long, a synopsis of its contents, shall be
read at an Ordinary Meeting of the Society before insertion in
the Chronicle."

The Council, while regretting that an article in the
Numismatic Chronicle has met with a certain amount of
disapproval, venture to think that the supporters of this
proposal can hardly be aware of the difficulties that attend the
regular publication of the Chronicle, or of the amount of work
entailed upon the Editors. They would point out that the
spirit of the proposed alteration in the Rule is at present so
far as practicable complied with both by the Officers of the
Society and by the Editors of the Numismatic Chronicle ; but
the Council cannot recommend the adoption of the proposed
alteration, inasmuch as if it were literally carried out it would
be almost impossible for the Editors to fulfil the duties
delegated to them by the Council, especially during the four
months of the year in which there are no Ordinary Meetings
of the Society.

Signed on behalf of the Council,
JOHN EVANS,

PRESIDENT.
22 Albemarle Street,

28th May, 1903.

The Hon. Treasurer's Report, which follows, was then
submitted to the Meeting and adopted.

Statement of Keceipts and Disbursements of the
Dr. THE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY OF LONDON IN

To Messrs. Virtue & Co. for printing Chronicles

Part II., 1902

57 6

Ill

67 5

IV.,

41 3

166

The Koyal Asiatic Society, one year's rent due June 24,

1903

Mrs. Harper, for attendance, Tea, Coffee, &c. .

Messrs. H. Bowyer & Co., for Bookbinding

Messrs. Whittingham & Co., for Stationery

Messrs. Thomas Mills, for Stationery

Messrs. Hachette, for " Dictionn. des Antiq." .

Mr. B. Quaritch, for Catalogue ....

Mr. F. Anderson, for Drawing Coins

...

1 5

>i ...

...

1 12

Mr. Pinches, for Engraving .....

Messrs. Williams & Norgate, for Eeinach, "L'Hist. par

les

Monnaies"

1 s

Mr. I. W. Miles, for Legal Expenses

.10

Secretaries' Account

M Treasurer, for Postages, Receipts, &c., and Cheque Book . . 1 12 3

Collector (Mr. C. G. Coleman), for Commission and Postages . 145

By Balance in hand . . . . 196 7

495 17 5
Examined and found correct,

THOS. BLISS, ) .

15th June, 1903. ARTHUR H. LYELLJ Audllors -

Numismatic Society, from June, 1902, to June, 1903.

ACCOUNT WITH WILLIAM C. BOYD, HON. TREASURER. Cr.

Balance from last Statement .......

154

It)

Entrance Fees .........

Subscriptions . . . . . . .

236

Amount received for Chronicles

Mr. B. Quaritch 3 15

40 10

14 5

Mr. C. B. Stainer

Mr. E. Rapson

Messrs, H. Virtue & Co., Limited, discount returned .

Inland Eevenue, Eeturned Income Tax

Allowance on old Cheques .......

August Dividend on 700 London and North- Western Railway

4% Consolidated Preference Stock (less Tax 16. lid.) .

February ditto (less Tax 17. 6<Z.) ....

495 17 5

WILLIAM C. BOYD,

HONORARY TREASURER.
15th June, 1903.

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The Report of the Council was received and, after consider-
able discussion, adopted. By a Resolution of the Meeting the
Ballot for the Council and Officers remained open till 7.30
p.m. After the Report of the Council had been adopted, and
after some further discussion as to the Council and Officers
for the ensuing year, the President presented the Society's
Medal to Mr. B. V. Head to forward to M. Schlumberger,
who was unable to attend the meeting, and addressed him
as follows :

Mr. Head, I have much pleasure in presenting to you the
Medal of this Society for transmission to Mons. Leon Gustave
Schlumberger, Membre de Tlnstitut de France. It has been
awarded to him by the Council in recognition of his long and
important services to numismatic science, more especially in
connection with the coinages of the Latin East.

For a period of nearly thirty years he has devoted special
attention to this department of our studies, but his descrip-
tion of the coins, jetons and medals of Beam, which forms a
second volume of the Monetary History of that important
ancient province of France, and his various articles on
Byzantine Coins republished in his Melanges d 'Archeologie
Byzantine, show that his interests are not confined to a single
branch of numismatics. His L'epopee byzantine a la fin du
dixieme siecle and his NicepJiore Phocas bear evidence to the
same effect. I must also mention his Sigillographie de
F Empire Byzantin, which is not unconnected with the coin-
age. But, after all, it is in respect of his Numismatique de
I' Orient Latin, published in 1878, with a supplement in 1882,
that this award has been mainly made. This exhaustive
work treats of the Principalities of Syria and Palestine, the
Kingdom of Cyprus and the Grand Masters of the Order of
St. John of Jerusalem at Rhodes, beginning with the eleventh
and coming down to the fifteenth century ; and enables us to
trace, both by historic and numismatic evidence, the rise and

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progress of the Crusades and their far-reaching results. The
work is indeed one that affords an admirable example of the
due combination of historical and numismatic research, and in
conveying to M. Schlumberger this medal we may express
not only our gratitude to him for his past achievements, but
our hope that there may be other fields before him in which
his labours in the future may produce equally valuable and
satisfactory results.

Mr. Head, in returning thanks for the medal on behalf of
M. Schlumberger, who was unable to be present, said that this
was the seventh occasion on which he had been privileged to
act as the deputy-recipient of the Society's medal on behalf
of a Numismatist of European reputation. He had read
before the Annual Meetings letters of warm acknowledgment
for the award of the medal from the Oriental numismatist,
Edward Thomas, in 1885, from Imhoof-Blumer, in 1888, from
J. P. Six of Amsterdam, in 1890, from his kind old friend
and adviser, M. W. H. Waddington, in 1893, from Mommsen,
the veteran historian of ancient Rome, in 1895, and from his
learned colleague, Von Sallet of Berlin, in 1897. And now,
once again, he had the honour of communicating to the
Society the following letter addressed to him by another
distinguished foreign numismatist, M. Gustave Schlumberger,
whose published works have already gained for him the
highest honour to which an Archaeologist can look forward,
that of Membership of the French Academy of Inscriptions.
M. Schlumberger's letter, as read by Mr. Head, is as

follows :

Paris, 37 Avenue d'Antin,

24 Mai, 1903.
" Monsieur,

Je ne puis vous exprimer combien la nouvelle de 1'honneur
insigne que m'a confere, sur votre proposition, la Societe Numis-
matique de Londres, me touche, me flatte et m'honore. Je
vous prie d'etre assez bon pour etre 1'interprete de ma gratitude

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aupres de votre illustre compagnie, car, a mon extreme regret,
il m'est materiellement impossible de me rendre a Londres.
Aucune recompense ne pouvait m'etre plus precieuse. Veuillez
en assurer vos savants confreres. II me reste a vous dire,
Monsieur et cher confrere, ma gratitude profonde pour votre
si aimable et flatteuse initiative qui me touche profondement.
Je suis fier de penser que mes modestes travaux m'ont valu
une telle distinction. Veuillez Monsieur et cher confrere,
croire a 1'expression de mes sentiments les plus distingues et
tres reconnaissants.

GUSTAVE SCHLUMBERGER,

de 1'Institut de France."

The President then delivered the following address :

The year that has just closed has been more eventful than
usual in the annals of the Society. We have unfortunately lost
our Honorary Treasurer by death ; we have unexpectedly, in
consequence of the winding-up of the old-established business
of Virtue & Co., Lim d ., been compelled to place our printing
in new hands, those of Messrs. W. Clowes & Sons, Lim d . ;
and there has been some excitement in the Society with
regard to a proposed change in a Rule which the Council, on
due consideration, and having regard to the necessities of the
Editors of the Numismatic Chronicle, have not been able to
accept. Their reasons for this action have been explained in
a short statement that has been circulated among the
Members.

The number of those whom the busy hand of death has
removed from among us has, I am glad to say, been only six,
but the resignations from various causes have been far more
numerous than usual, amounting to nine in all, a diminution
in our numbers which all must regard with regret.

On the other hand, we may congratulate ourselves on the
accession of fifteen Members, so that our total number of

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Ordinary Members, 268, remains at nearly the same level as
that of last year, 270.

Our finances, as you will have heard from the Report of
our excellent present Honorary Treasurer, Mr. W. C. Boyd,
are in a satisfactory condition.

Our medal has this year been bestowed on a highly dis-
tinguished foreign numismatist, M. Leon Gustave Schlum-
berger of Paris.

We have added the name of Oberst-Lieutenant M. Bahr-
feldt of Halle to our List of Honorary Members, from
which, however, the distinguished name of Baron Wladimir
von Tiesenhausen has to be removed on account of his
lamented decease.

Tt is as nearly as may be two years since, at our Anni-
versary Meeting in 1901, I placed our medal in the hands of
Dr. Codrington for transmission to Baron von Tiesenhausen.
It had been awarded to him by the Council in recognition of
his long and valuable services to Oriental Numismatics,
especially in connection with the coinages of the Khalifs. On
that occasion I pointed out that his numismatic labours had
commenced so long ago as 1855, and I cited some of his
principal works, such as his Monnaies des Khalifes Orientaux
and his Recueil de Materiaux relatifs a Vhistoire de la Horde
d'Or. I may now just mention his " account of two hoards
of Cufic coins found in Russia," * his notes on the collections
of Oriental Coins belonging to Count Stroganoff, to General
Komaroff, and to M. N. P. Linovitch, and a paper on an
unknown Dirhem which appeared in 1900. He was long
regarded as a chief among the students of Mohammedan
numismatics, and many will deeply regret his loss.

Mr. Alfred E. Copp joined our Society in the year 1877,
and in 1879 succeeded Mr. J. F. Neck in the post of
Honorary Treasurer a post which he held from that time
1 Num. Zeitschr, 1871.

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until the day of his death, October 7, 1902. On his accession
to office the invested funds of the Society amounted to 409
consols, while in June 1902 our capital consisted of 700
London and North Western Railway 4% Preference Stock of
the present value of about 900, or more than double what it
was twenty-three years previously. A better testimony to
the assiduous care of our finances by our Honorary Treasurer
can hardly be offered. Mr. Copp, however, did not confine
his attention to the current coins of the realm, but took a
warm interest in those of an earlier date, of which he not
infrequently exhibited specimens at our meetings. In my
last address, unaware that we were so soon to lose his
valuable services, I made mention of some beautiful plaques
by Simon Passe, that he had recently brought under our
notice. While mourning the loss of Mr. Copp, I feel that I
cannot do otherwise than take this opportunity of offering our
warmest thanks to Mr. Boyd for so readily undertaking the
somewhat onerous duties of the Honorary Treasurership of
the Society, and of expressing a hope that he may long be
spared to look after our interests in every department.

Mr. Syer Cuming joined the Society in 1875, but though a
diligent antiquary he never communicated anything to our
publications. It is, however, hardly an exaggeration to say
that he favoured the British Archaeological Association with
innumerable papers and notes on an infinite variety of sub-
jects, among which coins and medals occasionally appear.
Medalets relating to Mary Stuart, to the Old and Young
Pretenders, to the Virgin Mary and St. Benedict, to Porto
Bello and Culloden, the Lee penny and memento mori, were
all in turn the subjects of his researches. When his extensive
collections which, with a sum for their maintenance, have been
bequeathed to the Borough of Lambeth come to be arranged,
it will I think be found that they consist of more multifarious
objects than exist in any other museum, and that there is
hardly a phase of domestic life or of national industry

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but will receive some illustration from the collections formed
by Mr. Syer Cuming with such unceasing zeal through a
long life.

In Mr. John G. Murdoch, who died on July 22, 1902, we
have lost an ardent and intelligent collector, whose refined
taste and critical judgment are well exhibited in the mag-
nificent collection of coins and medals, which are now, alas !
in process of dispersion under the hammer.

I must now, in accordance with my usual custom, pass in
review the Papers that have either been read before the
Society or communicated to the pages of the Numismatic
Chronicle. As in former years they cover a wide field, both
chronologically and geographically.

In Greek numismatics Mr. Wroth has been so good as to
give us another of his valuable papers relating to recent
acquisitions by the British Museum. In the year 1901 these
were no less than 1069 in number, including 38 of gold and
411 of silver. Among the coins may be mentioned as
specially worthy of notice an early obol of Larissa, showing
the nymph seated on a hydria, and replacing one of her
sandals which has become loose during her efforts to while
away the time at the fountain by a game of ball. It is a
wonderful 4th century B.C. picture in a circle of less than
half-an-inch in diameter. A tetradrachm of Euboea is a fine
specimen of late 5th century work. A bronze coin of Eretria
of the time of Commodus, with a triple bust on the reverse, is
of great rarity and interest, whether the faces be male or
female. A coin of Aegium, of the time of Antoninus Pius,
shows the figure of the boy Zeus on the reverse, doubt-
less taken from the bronze statue by Ageladas that was seen
and described by Pausanias.

A remarkable Aeginetic didrachm of the Federation of
Achaean Cities, probably dating from about the middle of the
4th century B.C., demands attention on account of the
wonderful female head in profile on the obverse. It was

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also probably struck in Aegium. Coins of the Cilbiani Nicaei
of Lydia with a bull's head, and of Side in Pamphylia with
Asklepios, and of Cremna, with the word DON ATI O on the
reverse, the equivalent of AOPEA, are also worthy of notice.
The Trustees of the British Museum are much to be con-
gratulated on the value and interest of these accessions to
the Greek Series.

To Mr. George Macdonald, whose labours in connection
with the Hunter Collection at Glasgow are beyond all praise,
we are indebted for a Paper on the Coinage of Tigranes I.
He regards the duration of his coinage as having extended
over fourteen years, which he divides into three periods, the
coins of the second and third being dated. The earliest bears
the title of BAZIAEflZ simply ; the second that of BAZIAEQZ
BAZIAEflN, while those of the third revert to the title on the
first. Coins in silver and copper are known of all three
classes, the reverse type on the silver pieces being in all
cases the Tyche of Antioch.

In Roman numismatics we have to thank Mr. Grueber for
an exhaustive account of the Roman copper money of the
first century B.C., in which he traces the issue of the coins,
not only at Rome, but in Spain, Gaul, and the East. At
Rome the coinage, which had been in abeyance since 80 B.C.,
was partially revived about 44 B.C., but did not become con-
tinuous again until about 14 B.C. At that time the as and
quadrans were of copper and the sestertius and dupondius of
orichalcum, a metal which analysis shows consisted of about
three parts copper to one of zinc. This compound was re-
garded as being of twice the intrinsic value of copper. The
letters c. A. on the reverse of the fine copper coins of
Augustus struck in the East, are regarded by the author as
significant of Commune Asiae, or some other Latin form of
KOINON AZIAZ.

M. Jules Maurice has favoured us with another of his
valuable monographs on the issues of certain Roman mints

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during the Constantino Period. On this occasion it is the
Mint of Alexandria to which he directs our attention. He
classes the coins under no less than eleven issues, beginning
with A.D. 305 and ending with the small pieces struck after
the death of Constantine the Great in A.D. 337. Like former
Papers by the same author, this essay will be found of great
assistance to those who have to undertake the difficult task of
arranging the coins struck by the numerous Emperors and
Caesars of the close of the third and the first half of the
fourth century of our Era.

In a Paper on Some Rare or Unpublished Roman Coins, I
have called attention to a considerable number of interesting
pieces which with one exception are in my own cabinet. One
of the small silver coins of the time of Galba is remarkable as
having been found in this country, and as presenting a new
type of the " Hispaniarum et Gralliarum Concordia." A series
of gold coins, for the most part from Egyptian hoards, give
some new varieties of the days of Septimius Severus and his
successors, while the aureus of Balbinus adds a new name to
the Roman gold series, and some hitherto unknown coins of
Carausius, both of gold and silver, are of especial interest to
British numismatists. We have had brought before us
several notices of finds of Roman coins. Mr. Boyd has
described a hoard of six or seven hundred coins from the
time of Valerian to that of Aurelian, found near Romorantin
in the Department of the Loire. Mr. Haverneld has given
us lists of two hoards of much the same period, from Brighton
and Eastbourne, and of another of somewhat later date
coming down to the Constantine Period, unearthed at Easton
near Norwich. An earlier hoard of denarii from Tiberius to
Faustina II., found near Caistor by Norwich, has also been
described by Mr. Haverfield.

Mr. Hill has given us a list of a small hoard from the tune
of Agrippa to that of Vespasian found during excavations in
Southwark, and Mr. Percy H. Webb has described a number

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of coins found on the rebuilding of Carpenters' Hall in 1872,
among which are Roman and Byzantine coins of very various
dates.

In the domain of Anglo-Saxon numismatics the indefatigable
Mr. Grueber has placed on record particulars of an extremely
interesting small hoard of coins of the time of Alfred recently
discovered near Stamford. One of them, struck at Lincoln,
has the name of the moneyer, Herebald, upon the obverse,
instead of that of the king. Two half-pence are of an unpub-
lished type, and bear on the reverse a monogram formed of
the letters A and U), somewhat in the manner of that upon
certain Merovingian trientes. Several of the coins are
Danish copies of those of Alfred, as was the case in the great
Cuerdale hoard.

Some curious coins of Eadgar, with remarkable florid
reverses, have also been described by Mr. Grueber, who in
the same paper has noticed a rare noble of Henry VI.
belonging to his first or annulet coinage.

Mr. Carlyon-Britton has called attention to a rare penny
of Regnald I. of Northumbria with the hammer of Thor on
the obverse and a bow and arrow on the reverse. In a later
Paper he has given an exhaustive account of the coinage of
Edward the Confessor and attempted a slightly novel
arrangement of the types, relying to a great extent on
certain historical data.

I must now direct your attention to what has been done
with regard to our post-Conquest numismatics.

The long and important Numismatic History of the Reign
of Henry I., by Mr. W. J. Andrew, which occupies the First
Volume of the Fourth Series of the Chronicle, has been the
subject of a considerable amount of criticism. Some notes
upon it by Messrs. C. G. Crump and C. Johnson of the
Record Office appeared in the Chronicle, but it must not be
forgotten that for the opinions therein expressed the
authors alone and not the editors are responsible. The

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authors have corrected some few errors of their own, in-
cluding one of some importance as to the date of the building
of the Cathedral of Exeter, in Part I. of the Chronicle for the
present year.

Mr. J. H. Round, in the English Historical Review? has
also commented on Mr. Andrew's History, mainly in connec-
tion with the Mint of Colchester. It is not for me here to
say whether the critics are right or wrong as to facts, but
when we consider the vast area of the field covered by
Mr. Andrew, we must feel that it would be strange indeed if
he did not occasionally fall into error. As numismatists we
must all acknowledge our indebtedness to him for the immense
labour that he undertook in collecting particulars of all the
known coins of Henry I., and for the skill shown in the
difficult task of arranging their types. Very possibly he may
have been in error in regarding certain remissions, of which
we have evidence in records, as being credited to the wrong
fund, but he himself must be credited with first calling
marked attention to the fact that these remissions, on the
ground of defect of moneyers at certain mints, have a direct
bearing on the history of the coinage. If but one moneyer
worked at a certain place for a given time instead of four, it
is evident that the type issued at that time would at that mint
be relatively scarce, and if no moneyers were at work the
type would be absent. The reasons for the shortness or total
want of moneyers at certain mints in certain years may or
may not be absolutely those suggested by Mr. Andrew ; but
though in many cases the evidence is of necessity negative in
character, he has contributed to our studies a good working
hypothesis which may eventually lead to a more perfect
knowledge of the numismatic history of Norman times. For
this we should all be grateful.

With regard to the connection of a local coinage, with the
absence or presence of the grantee of the mint within his
2 Vol. xviii., p. 305.

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demesne, I am inclined to think that we have not as yet
heard the last word.

Mr. Grueber has laid before us an account of a large hoard
of silver coins lately discovered at Colchester. Nearly 1 1,000
pieces were present, mainly English, of the short-cross type,
but also a fair number of Irish and Scottish pennies and a
few foreign deniers. A careful analysis of the coins has
enabled the author to add some new names of moneyers to
the lists already published ; but on the whole the examina-
tion of this large hoard has resulted in confirming the views
that I brought forward nearly forty years ago, viz., that the
short-cross pennies bearing the name of HENRICUS were
struck not only under Henry II., but throughout the reigns
of Richard I. and John, and during the first years of
Henry III., until the introduction of the long-cross type in
the year 1248.

Mr. F. A. Walters has supplemented his exhaustive Paper
of last year, on the Silver Coinage of Henry VI., by a Paper
on the Gold Coinage of that monarch. He showed that the
bulk of Henry's gold coins were struck in the early part of
his reign, and he was therefore inclined to assign the annulet
rather than the trefoil coinage to his mints. He suggested
that the flag of the ship on the nobles and half -nobles is
indicative of the coins bearing it having been struck at
Calais, and that the fleur-de-lis on the stern of the ship in
other cases may indicate their having been struck at York.
When the Paper has been printed we shall be better able to
examine the cogency of these suggestions, which at first
sight have much to commend them. That as to the fleur-de-
lis being the symbol of York is to my mind more hazardous
than the others, but may after all have a solid foundation.

Coming down to the later times, I find the Rev. G. Searle
calling attention to about fifty sixteenth-century Tradesmen's
Tokens, not given in Williamson's edition of Boyne. The
majority, as might be expected, are of London, but I am

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interested in noting two unpublished Hertfordshire Tokens in
the List.

Mr. Pritchard has also favoured us with a supplementary
note on the Bristol Tokens of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries, mainly relating to varieties of those already
published, but also including a new and unpublished Private
Token.

An engraved and unique naval reward medal, presented to
Mr. John Breton, pilot to H.M.S. " Crescent," has been the
subject of an interesting account by Mr. Bardasano and
Mr. Grueber.

In Oriental numismatics we have had descriptions of some
rare coins of the Khalifs of Baghdad, both Umayad and
Abbasi, struck at various mints, from the pen of Dr.
Codrington.

Mr. Long worth Dames has given us an account of some of
the Coins of the Moghul Emperors, struck at the numerous
mints within their wide-spread dominions.

Tha coinage of the East India Company has been carefully
discussed by Mr. J. M. C. Johnston. The subject is none the
less difficult on account of so large a proportion of the Com-
pany's coins having in these early days been struck in the
name of Moghul Emperors and Native Princes.

I must now call your attention to some of the numismatic
publications of the past year, and in doing so must acknow-
ledge my indebtedness to Mr. Grueber for assistance in
preparing a portion of these short notices.

Another volume of the British Museum Catalogue of Greek
Coins, the twenty-third of the series begun in 1873, has
recently been published. It relates to the Coins of Parthia,
and has been compiled by Mr. Warwick Wroth. It is illus-
trated by a map and thirty-seven autotype plates. The coins
of the Arsacidae, with the exception of those of early date,
do not perhaps possess the same attractions, either as works
of art or as historical monuments as most of the other Greek

36 PROCEEDINGS OF THE

series. There are, however, mysteries as to chronology,
identification and classification, which have attractions of
their own, and in this country both Professor Percy Gardner
and Mr. Warwick Wroth have found a special interest in
working on these Parthian coins. A Paper by the latter on
the rearrangement of the series, principally that portion of it
that is anterior to the time of Phraates IV., appeared in 1900
in the Numismatic Chronicle, and the lines then laid down
have been followed in the Catalogue. I cannot pretend to
pass an opinion on the merits of this book, but on the face
of it an immense amount of patient labour lias been bestowed
upon it, the Indices and Introduction are all that could
be desired, and the Plates give admirable reproductions of
the coins.

Another important work on Greek numismatics is Dr.
Imhoof-Blumer's second and concluding part of his Klein-
asiatische Munzen, which deals with rare and unpublished
coins of Lycia, Pamphylia, Pisidia, Lycaonia, Cilicia and
Galatia, with an Appendix. Such a work needs no commen-
dation on my part, as the great value and interest of all
Dr. Imhoof-Blumer's publications are so well known to Greek
numismatists, who will find in this volume not only much
fresh information but also the identification and elucidation
of many coins hitherto classed as " Uncertain." Illustrations
are given of all the more important pieces, and full indices
are supplied for reference.

Mr. G. F. Hill has added to his already numerous numis-
matic works a volume on the Coins of Ancient Sicily. In his
Preface he tells us, " It is a conviction of the high interest to
all students of antiquity and lovers of art of many things in
the history of Sicilian coinage, which are hidden away in
special highly technical publications, that has suggested the
compilation of this book." Holm in his GescMchte Siciliens
im Alterthum has described the Sicilian coins in the form of a
Catalogue ; and Mr. Arthur Evans, in the fourth volume of

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 37

Freeman's History of Sicily, has discussed them rather from an
economic and political view, though his valuable papers on
Syracusan Medallions and Artists' signatures on Sicilian coins
in the Numismatic Chronicle deal with the coins of Syracuse,
both from the chronological and the artistic standpoint.
Mr. Hill is inclined to confine himself more especially to the
numismatic and artistic interest of the series. In consequence
the attention of the reader is not disturbed by long and minute
descriptions of the coins, though he fully explains their types
and historical import. The introductory chapter, which gives
a brief sketch of Sicilian history, is a fitting prelude to the
main subject. The book is well illustrated by blocks and
collotype plates, the latter being admirably executed.

M. Theodore Reinach has collected, under the title L'Histoire
par les Monnaies, a number of his contributions to archaeo-
logical periodicals within the last fifteen years. As the title
implies, the volume is mainly concerned with numismatics as
applied to the elucidation of history. Among the many
important articles included I may mention that on the
relation between gold and silver in antiquity, as well as the
brilliant suggestion that the supposed artist "Acragas,"
mentioned by Pliny, is a myth originating in a decadrachm
of Acragas having been let into the bottom of a silver cup.
The discovery of a new King of Bithynia and the identifica-
tion of the Bithynian sculptor of the Venus accroupie as
Doedalses, and not, as hitherto supposed, Daedalus, may be
mentioned as being of special interest among the twenty-five
subjects which are discussed in the volume.

In concluding this short address, I must again thank the
Society for the indulgence which for so many years it has
extended to me, and express a hope that the Temple of Janus
may now be closed, and that the future years of the
Numismatic Society may be blessed with peace and pros-
perity.

38 PROCEEDINGS OF THE

A vote of thanks to the President for his Address was
moved by Professor Percy Gardner, seconded by Sir Augustus
Prevost, and carried unanimously.

The President announced to the meeting the result of the
Ballot for the Council and Officers for the ensuing year,
which was :

President.

SIR JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D.,
F.K.S., V.P.S.A., F.G.S.

Vice-Presidents.

SIR HENRY H. HOWORTH, K.C.I.E., F.R.S., F.S.A.
SIR AUGUSTUS PREVOST, BART., B.A., F.S.A.

Hon. Treasurer.
W. C. BOYD, ESQ.

Hon. Secretaries.

HERBERT A. GRUEBER, ESQ., F.S.A.
PROF. EDWARD J. RAPSON, M.A., M.R.A.S.

Foreign Secretary.
GEORGE FRANCIS HILL, ESQ., M.A.

Hon. Librarian.
OLIVER CODRINGTON, ESQ., M.D., F.S.A.

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 39

Members of the Council.

THOMAS BLISS, ESQ.

STEPHEN W. BUSHELL, ESQ., M.D., C.M.G.

LADY EVANS.

PROF. PERCY GARDNER, M.A., Lnr.D., F.S.A.

BARCLAY VINCENT HEAD, ESQ., D.C.L., PH.D.

RICHARD A. HOBLYN, ESQ., F.S.A.

HORACE W. MONCKTON, ESQ., F.L.S., F.G.S.

C. R. PEERS, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A.

FREDERICK A. WALTERS, ESQ., F.S.A.

SIR HERMANN WEBER, M.D.

LIST OP MEMBERS

OP THE

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY

OF LONDON,

1903.

LIST OF MEMBERS

OP THE

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY

OF LONDON,

1903.

An Asterisk prefixed to a name indicates that the Member has compounded
for his annual contribution.

ELECTED

1873 *ALEXIEFF, M. GEORGES D', Maitre de la Cour de S.M.
1'Empereur de Eussie, 40, Sergnewskaje, St. Petersburg.

1903 ALLBUTT, HENRY ARTHUR, ESQ., LL.D., D.C.L., M.E.C.P.,
24, Park Square, Leeds.

1892 AMEDROZ, HENRY F., ESQ., 7, New Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.
1884 ANDREWS, E. THORNTON, ESQ., 25, Castle Street, Hertford.

1888 ARNOLD, G. M., ESQ., D.L., F.S.A., Milton Hall, Gravesend,
Kent.

1900 AVEBURY, KT. HON. LORD, P.O., F.E.S., High Elms, Down,
Kent.

1882 BACKHOUSE, SIR JONATHAN E., BART., The Eookery, Middleton

Tyas, E.S.O., Yorks.

1902 BALDWIN, A. H., ESQ., 212, Eglinton Eoad, Plumstead,
Woolwich.

1898 BANES, ARTHUR ALEXANDER, ESQ., The Eed House, Upton,
Essex.

1887 BASCOM, G. J., ESQ., 109, Lexington Avenue, New York,
U.S.A.

1896 BEARMAN, THOS., ESQ., Melbourne House, 8, Tudor Eoad,
Hackney.

1898 *BENSON, FRANK SHERMAN, ESQ., 214, Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A.

1880 *BIEBER, G. W. EGMONT, ESQ., 4, Fenchurch Avenue, E.G.

1883 BIGGE, FRANCIS E., ESQ., Hennapyn, Torquay.
1882 BIRD, W. S., ESQ., 74, New Oxford Street, W.C.

4 LIST OF MEMBERS.

ELECTED

1885 BLACKETT, JOHN STEPHENS, ESQ., C.E., Inverard, Aberfoyle,

N.B.

1882 BLACKMORE, H. P., ESQ., M.D., Blackmore Museum, Salis-
bury.

1896 BLEAZBY, GEO. BERNARD, ESQ., Assist. Accountant-General,
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Allahabad, India.

1882 *BLISS, THOMAS, ESQ., Conmgsburgh, Montpelier Eoad,
Ealing, W.

1879 BLUNDELL, J. H., ESQ., 157, Cheapside, E.G.

1896 BOULTON, S. B., ESQ., J.P., D.L., F.E.G.S., Copped Hall,

Totteridge, Herts.

1903 BOUSFIELD, STANLEY, ESQ., M.A., M.B. (Camb.), M.E.C.S.,
35, Princes Square, W.

1897 BOWCHER, FRANK, ESQ., 35, Fairfax Eoad, Bedford Park, W.

1899 BOWLES, HAROLD BOLLES, ESQ., Oakside, 35, Oakfield Eoad,
Clifton, Bristol.

1892 BOYD, WILLIAM C., ESQ., J.P., 7, Friday Street, E.G., Hon.
Treasurer.

1899 -BOYLE, COLONEL GERALD, 48, Queen's Gate Terrace, S.W.

1903 BRAMBLE, LT.-COL. JAMES EOGER, J.P., F.S.A., Seafield,
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

1896 BRUUN, HERR L. E., 101, Gothersgade, Copenhagen.
1878 BUCHAN, J. S., ESQ., 17, Barrack Street, Dundee.

1889 BUCKLEY, LADY, Bathafarn Hall, Euthin, Denbighshire.

1884 BUICK, DAVID, ESQ., LL.D., Sandy Bay, Larne Harbour,
Ireland.

1881 BULL, EEV. HERBERT A., Wellington House, Westgate-on-
Sea.

1897 BURN, EICHARD, ESQ., Allabahad, India.

1881 BURSTAL, EDWARD K., ESQ., M. List. C.E., 38, Parliament

Street, Westminster.

1900 BUSHELL, STEPHEN W., ESQ., M.D., C.M.G., Shirley, Harold

Eoad, Upper Norwood, S.E.

1878 *BUTTERY, W., ESQ. (address not known).

1886 CALDECOTT, J. B., ESQ., Wallfields, Hertford.

1894 CARLYON-BRITTON P W. P., ESQ., D.L., J.P., F.S.A., 14,
Oakwood Court, Kensington, W.

1898 CAR ^ ;g MAJOR D. LINDSAY, 6, Playfair Terrace, St.

1899 CAVE, CHARLES J. P., ESQ., Ditcham Park, Petersfield.

LIST OF MEMBERS. 5

ELECTED

1886 CHURCHILL, WM. S., ESQ., 102, Birch Lane, Manchester.

1884 *CLARK, JOSEPH, ESQ., 5, Grosvenor Gardens, Muswell Hill,

N.W.

1890 CLARKE, CAPT. J. E. PLOMER, Welton Place, near Daventry,

Northamptonshire.

1891 *CLAUSON, ALBERT CHARLES, ESQ., 12, Park Place Villas,

Maida Hill West, W.

1890 CLERK, MAJOR-GEN. M. G., Bengal Army, c/o Messrs. H. S.
King & Co., 9, Pall Mall, S.W.

1903 CLULOW, GEORGE, ESQ., 51, Belsize Avenue, Hampstead,
N.W.

1886 CODRINGTON, OLIVER, ESQ., M.D,, F.S.A., M.E.A.S., 12,
Victoria Road, Clapham Common, Librarian.

1895 COOPER, JOHN, ESQ., Beckfoot, Longsight, Manchester.

1902 COVERNTON, J. G., ESQ., M.A., The Cherries, St. Briavels,
near Coleford, Gloucestershire.

1874 CREEKE, MAJOR ANTHONY BUCK, Westwood, Burnley.
1886 *CROMPTON-EOBERTS, CHAS. M., ESQ., 52, Mount Street, W.

1900 CRONIN, ALFRED C., ESQ., F.S.A., 25, Kensington Palace
Mansions, De Vere Gardens, W.

1899 CULL, REUBEN, ESQ,, Tarradale, Glebe Avenue, Enfield,
Middlesex.

1884 DAMES, M. LONGWORTH, ESQ., M.E.A,S., Alegria, Enfield,
Middlesex.

1900 DATTARI, SIGNOR GIOVANNI, Cairo, Egypt.

1891 DAUGLISH, A. W., ESQ., Stanmore, Foxley Lane, Purley.

1902 DAVEY, EDWARD CHARLES, ESQ., 1, Somerset Cottages, Prior
Park Eoad, Bath.

1878 DAVIDSON, J. L. STRAQHAN, ESQ., M.A., Balliol College,
Oxford.

1884 DAVIS, WALTER, ESQ., 23, Suffolk Street, Birmingham.

1898 DAVIS, WILLIAM JOHN, ESQ., Erceldeane, Wake Green Eoad,
Moseley, Birmingham.

1888 DAWSON, G. J. CROSBIE, ESQ., M. Inst. C.E., F.G.S., F.S.S.,
May Place, Newcastle, Staffordshire.

1897 DAY, EGBERT, ESQ., F.S.A., M.E.I.A., Myrtle Hill House,
Cork.

1886 *DEWICK, EEV. E. S., M.A., F.S.A., 26, Oxford Square, Hyde
Park, W.

6 LIST OF MEMBEKS.

ELECTED

1888 DICKINSON, REV. F. BINLEY, M.A., Manor House, Ottery St.

Mary.

1889 DIMSDALE, JOHN, ESQ., c/o C. J. Mercer, Esq., Northwick

Lodge, Harrow-on-the-Hill.

1868 DOUGLAS, CAPTAIN E. J. H., Junior United Service Club,

Charles Street, St. James's, S.W.
1893 DUDMAN, JOHN, ESQ., JUN., Eosslyn Hill, Hampstead, N.W.

1893 ELLIOTT, E. A., ESQ., 41, Holland Park, W.

1895 ELY, TALFOURD, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A., 13, Well Road, Hamp-
stead, N.W.

1888 ENGEL, M. ARTHUR, 66, Rue de 1'Assomption, Paris.
1879 ERHARDT, H., ESQ., 9, Bond Court, Walbrook, E.G.

1872 EVANS, ARTHUR J., ESQ., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.S.A.,

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

1849 EVANS, SIR JOHN, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.S.A.,
Corr. de 1'Inst., Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, President.

1892 *EVANS, LADY, Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead.

1861 EVANS, SEBASTIAN, ESQ., LL.D., Abbots Barton, Canterbury.

1836 FAY, DUDLEY B., ESQ., 53, State Street, Boston, Mass.,
U.S.A.

1902 FENTIMAN, HARRY, ESQ., 3, Aylesbury Villas, Hounslow.

1902 FITCH, OSWALD, ESQ., Woodhouse Eaves, Crouch End.

1901 FLETCHER, LIONEL LAWFORD, ESQ., Norwood Lodge, Tup-
wood, Caterham.

1898 FORRER, L., ESQ., Edelweiss, Grove Park, Kent.

1894 *FOSTER, JOHN ARMSTRONG, ESQ., F.Z.S., Chestwood, near
Barnstaple.

1891 Fox, H. B. EARLE, ESQ., 42, Rue Joufiroy, Paris.

1903 Fox, HENRY ELLIOTT, ESQ., Jeune House, Salisbury.

1868 FRENTZEL, RUDOLPH, ESQ., 96, Upper Osbaldeston Road,

Stoke Newington, N.

1882 *FRESHFIELD, EDWIN, ESQ., LL.D., F.S.A., New Bank
Buildings, 31, Old Jewry, E.C.

1896 *FRY, CLAUDE BASIL, ESQ., Howcroft, Stoke Bishop,

Bristol.

1897 GANS, LEOPOLD, ESQ., 207, Madison Street, Chicago, U.S.A.

LIST OF MEMBERS. 7

ELECTED

1871 GARDNER, PROF. PERCY, Litt.D., F.S.A., 12, Canterbury Road,
Oxford.

1889 GARSIDE, HENRY, ESQ., Burnley Eoad, Accrington.
1894 GOODACRE, H., ESQ., The Court, Ullesthorpe, Eugby.

1885 GOSSET, MAJOR-GEN. MATTHEW W. E., C.B., Westgate House,

Dedham, Essex.

1899 GOWLAND, PROF. WILLIAM, F.I.C., M.C.S., F.S.A., 13,
Eussell Eoad, Kensington, W.

1891 *GRANTLEY, LORD, F.S.A., 2, Buckingham Palace Gardens,

S.W.
1865 GREENWELL, EEV. CANON W., M.A., F.E.S., F.S.A., Durham.

1903 GRIFFITH, FRANK LL., ESQ., M.A., Eiversvale, Ashton -under-
Lyne.

1894 GRISSELL, HARTWELL D., ESQ., M.A., F.S.A., 60, High
Street, Oxford.

1871 GRUEBER, HERBERT A., ESQ., F.S.A., Assistant-Keeper of
Coins, British Museum, Hon. Secretary.

1899 HALL, HENRY PLATT, ESQ., Toravon, Werneth, Oldham.
1898 HANDS, EEV. ALFRED W., Wanstead, Essex.

1903 HASLUCK, F. W., ESQ., The Wilderness, Southgate, N.

1902 HAVERFIELD, FRANCIS J., M.A., F.S.A., Christ Church,

Oxford.

1864 HEAD, BARCLAY VINCENT, ESQ., D.C.L., Ph.D., Keeper of
Coins, British Museum.

1886 *HENDERSON, JAMES STEWART, ESQ., F.E.G.S., M.E.S.L.,

M.C.P., 1, Pond Street, Hampstead, N.

1901 *HENDERSON, EEV. COOPER K., M.A., Members' Mansions,
Victoria Street, S.W.

1892 HEWITT, EICHARD, ESQ., 28, Westbourae Gardens, W.

1900 HEWLETT, LIONEL M., ESQ., Parkside, Harrow-on-the-Hill,

Middlesex.

1880 HEYWOOD, NATHAN, ESQ., 3, Mount Street, Manchester.

1903 HIGGINS, FRANK C., ESQ., 78, Eue Eichelieu, Paris.

1893 HILBERS, THE VEN. G. C., St. Thomas's Eectory, Haverford*

west.

1898 HILL, CHARLES WILSON, ESQ. (address not known).

1893 HILL, GEORGE FRANCIS, ESQ., M.A., British Museum,
Foreign Secretary.

J873 HOBLYN, EICHARD A., ESQ., F.S.A., 30, Abbey Eoad, St.
John's Wood, N.W.

8 LIST OF MEMBERS.

, WILLIAM JOHN, ESQ., 1, Eoyal Mint, E.
1895 HODGE, EDWARD G., ESQ., F.S.A., 13, Wellington Street,

Strand, W.C.

1895 HODGE, THOMAS, ESQ., 13, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.
1889 HODGES, GEORGE, ESQ., Thornbury, Gloucestershire.

1877 HODGKIN, T., ESQ., D.C.L., F.S.A., Benwelldene, Newcastle.

1878 HOWORTH, SIR HENRY H., K.C.I.E., F.B.S., F.S.A.,

30, Collingham, Place, Earl's Court, S.W., Vice-

President.
1883 HUBBARD, WALTER E., ESQ., 6, Broomhill Avenue, Partick,

Glasgow.
1885 HUGEL, BARON F. VON, 13, Vicarage Gate, Kensington, W.

1897 HDTH, EEGINALD, ESQ., 32, Phillimore Gardens, Kensington,

1892 INDERWICK, F. A., ESQ., K.C., F.S.A., 8, Warwick Square,
S.W.

1872 JAMES, J. HENRY, ESQ., Kingswood, Watford.

1879 *JEX-BLAKE, THE VERY EEV. T. W., D.D., F.S.A., Deanery,

Wells.

1880 JOHNSTON, J. M. C., ESQ., The Yews, Grove Park, Camber-

well, S.E.

1898 JONAS, MAURICE, ESQ., 9, Drapers' Gardens, E.G.

1902 JONES, E. ALFRED, ESQ., Junior Conservative Club, Albemarle

Street, W.
1843 JONES, JAMES COVE, ESQ., F.S.A., Loxley, Wellesbourne,

Warwick.

1873 KEARY, CHARLES FRANCIS, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A., Savile Club,

Piccadilly, W.

1874 *KENYON, E. LLOYD, ESQ., M.A., Pradoe, West Felton, Salop.

1884 KING, L. WHITE, ESQ., C.S.I., F.S.A., The Old House,
Totteridge, Herts.

1891 KIRKALDY, JAMES, ESQ., Park House, Hendon Lane, Finchley,

1876 KITCHENER, GENERAL VISCOUNT, OF KHARTOUM, G.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., O.M., c/o Messrs. Cox & Co., Charing Cross,
S.W.

1884 *KITT, THOS. W., ESQ., Snowdon, Woodbridge Eoad, Guildford.
1901 KOZMINSKY, ISIDORE, ESQ., Langport Villa, 43, Eobe Street,
St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia.

1879 KRUMBHOLZ, E. C., ESQ., Alcester House, Wallington, Surrey.

LIST OF MEMBERS. 9

ELECTED

1883 *LAGERBERG, M. ADAM MAGNUS EMANUEL, Chamberlain of
H.M. the King of Sweden and Norway, Director of the
Numismatic Department, Museum, Gottenburg, and
Rada, Sweden.

1901 LAMBERT, HORACE, ESQ., Norgrave Buildings, 59A, Bishops-
gate Street Within, E.G.

1888 *LAMBROS, M. J. P., Athens, Greece.

1871 *LANG, SIR EGBERT HAMILTON, The Grove, Dedham, Essex.

1900 LANGTON, H. NEVILLE S., ESQ., 62, Harley Street, W.

1898 LAVER, PHILIP G., ESQ., M.R.C.S., Head Street, Colchester.

1899 LAWES, SIR CHARLES BENNET, BART., The Studio, Chelftea

Gardens, S.W.

1877 LAWRENCE, F. G., ESQ., Birchfield, Mulgrave Road, Sutton,
Surrey.

1885 *LAWRENCE, L. A., ESQ., 51, Belsize Park, N.W.

1883 *LAWRENCE, RICHARD HOE, ESQ., 15, Wall Street, New York. .

1871 *LAWSON, ALFRED J., ESQ., Smyrna.

1893 LESLIE-ELLIS, LIEUT.-COL. HENRY, D.L., F.S.A., F.R.G.S.,

Magherymore, Wicklow.

1892 LEWIS, PROF. BUNNELL, M.A., F.S.A., Queen's College, Cork.
1862 LINCOLN, FREDERICK W., ESQ., 69, New Oxford Street, W.C.

1900 LINCOLN, FREDERICK W., ESQ., JUN., 69, New Oxford Street,

W.C.

1887 Low, LYMAN H., ESQ., 36, West 126th Street, New York,
U.S.A.

1893 LUND, H. M., ESQ., Makotuku, New Zealand.

1903 LYDDON, FREDERICK STICKLAND, ESQ., Nore House, Portishead,
Somerset.

1885 *LYELL, A. H., ESQ., F.S.A., 9, Cranley Gardens, S.W.

1895 MACDONALD, GEO., ESQ., M.A., The University, Glasgow.

1901 MACFADYEN, FRANK E., ESQ., 24, Grosvenor Place, Newcastle-

on-Tyne.

1887 MACKERELL, C. E., ESQ., Dunningley, Balham Hill, S.W.
1895 MARSH, WM. E., ESQ., Marston, Bromley, Kent.

1897 MARTIN, A. TRICE, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A., The School House,
Bath College, Bath.

1903 MARTIN, T. COWPER, ESQ., 44, White Ladies Road, Clifton,

Bristol.

1897 MASSY, COL. W. J., 96, Oakley Street, Chelsea, S.W.
1880 *MAUDE, REV. S., The Vicarage, Hockley, Essex.

1901 McDowALL, STEWART A., ESQ., 166, Holland Road, Kensing-
ton, W.

10 LIST OF MEMBERS.

ELECTED

1868 MCLACHLAN, E. W., ESQ., 55, St. Monique Street, Montreal,
Canada.

1897 MILNE, J. GRAFTON, ESQ., M.A., Holly House, Plaistow, E.

1887 MITCHELL, E. C., ESQ., c/o Messrs. H. S. King & Co., 65,

Cornhill.

1898 MONCKTON, HORACE W., ESQ.,' F.L.S., F.G.S., 3, Harcourt

Buildings, Temple, E.G.

1888 MONTAGUE, L. A. D., ESQ., Penton, near Crediton, Devon.

1897 MOREIESON, LT.-COL. H. WALTERS, E.A., 16, Sumner Place,

South Kensington, S.W.

1894 MURPHY, WALTER ELLIOT, ESQ., 17, Longridge Eoad, Earl's

Court, S.W.
1900 *MYLNE, EEV. EGBERT SCOTT, M.A., B.C.L., F.S.A., Great

Amwell, Herts.

1893 NAPIER, PROF. A. S., M.A., D.Litt., Ph.D., Hedington Hill,
Oxford.

1864 NECK, J. F.,ESQ., c/o Messrs. F. W. Lincoln, 69, New Oxford
Street, W.C.

1898 NELSON, PHILIP, ESQ., M.D., Ch.B., 73, Eodney Street,

Liverpool.

1880 NELSON, EALPH, ESQ., 55, North Bondgate, Bishop Auck-
land.

1891 NERVEGNA, M. G., Brindisi, Italy.

1903 NEWALL, WILLIAM, EsQ.,-Eed Heath, Croxley Green, E.S.O.,
Herts.

1898 OGDEN, W. SHARP, ESQ., Hill View, Danes Eoad, Eusholme,
Manchester.

1897 *O'HAGAN, HENRY OSBORNE, ESQ., Al4, The Albany,
Piccadilly, W.

1882 OMAN, PROF. C. W. C., M.A., F.S.A., All Souls College,
Oxford.

1890 PAGE, SAMUEL, ESQ., Hanway House, Nottingham.

1903 PARSONS, H. ALEXANDER, ESQ., 6, Clayton Eoad, Peckham,
S.E.

1890 PATON, W. E., ESQ., Maison Camus, Place Maze, Viroflay,
S. et 0., France.

1882 *PECKOVER, ALEXANDER, ESQ., LL.D., F.S.A., F.L.S.,
F.E.G.S., Lord Lieut. Cambridgeshire, Bank House,
Wisbech.

LIST OF MEMBERS. 11

ELECTED

1898 PEDLEB, G. H., ESQ., L.E.C.P., 6, Trevor Terrace, Eutland

Gate, S.W.

1896 PEERS, C. E., ESQ., M.A., F.S.A., 96, Grosvenor Eoad, S.W.

1894 PERRY, HENRY, ESQ., Middleton, Plaistow Lane, Bromley,

Kent.

1862 *PERRY, MARTEN, ESQ., M.D., Spalding, Lincolnshire.

1888 PINCHES, JOHN HARVEY, ESQ., 27, Oxenden Street, Hay-

market.

1889 POWELL-COTTON, PERCY H. GORDON, ESQ., Quex Park,

Birchington, Thanet.

1887 PREVOST, SIR AUGUSTUS, BART., B.A., F.S.A., 79, Westbourne
Terrace, W., Vice-President.

1897 PRICE, F. G. HILTON, ESQ., F.S.A., F.G.S., 17, Collingham

Gardens, S.W.

1903 PRICE, HARRY, ESQ., Cloverley, St. Donatt's Eoad, New
Cross, S.E.

1878 PRIDEAUX, COL. W. F., C.S.I., F.E.G.S., M.E.A.S., 1, West

Cliff Terrace, Eamsgate.

1899 PRITCHARD, JOHN E., ESQ., F.S.A., 8, Cold Harbour Eoad,

Eedland, Bristol.

1902 EAMSDEN, HENRY A., ESQ., Consulado General de la Eepublica

de Cuba, Barcelona, Spain.

1887 EANSOM, W., ESQ., F.S.A., F.L.S., Fairfield, Hitchin, Herts.
1893 EAPHAEL, OSCAR C., ESQ., 37, Portland Place, W.

1890 EAPSON, PROF. E. J., M.A., M.E.A.S., British Museum,

W.C., Hon. Secretary.

1848 EASHLEIGH, JONATHAN, ESQ., M.A., D.L., J.P., Menabilly,
Par Station, Cornwall.

1887 EEADY, W. TALBOT, ESQ., 55, Eathbone Place, W.

1903 EEGAN, W. H., ESQ., 51, Queen's Eoad, Bayswater, W.

1895 EIDGEWAY, PROFESSOR W., M.A., Fen Ditton, Cambridge.

1876 *EOBEBTSON, J. D., ESQ., M.A., 21, Park Eoad, Eichmond
Hill, Surrey.

1889 EOME, WILLIAM, ESQ., C.C., F.S.A., F.L.S., Creeksea Place,
Burnham - on - Crouch .

1903 EOSENHEIM, MAX, ESQ., 68, Belsize Park Gardens, N.W.

1900 EOSKELL, EGBERT N., ESQ., 10, Oakwood Court, Ken-

sington, W.

1862 EOSTRON, SIMPSON, ESQ., 1, Hare Court, Temple, E.G.

12 LIST OF MEMBERS.

ELECTED

1896 *EOTH, BERNARD, ESQ., J.P., Wayside, Preston Park,

Brighton.
1903 EUBEN, PAUL, ESQ., Ph.D., 18, Montague Street, W.C.

1872 *SALAS, MIGUEL T., ESQ., 247, Florida Street, Buenos Ayres.

1877 *SANDEMAN, LIEUT.-COL. JOHN GLAS, F.S.A., Whin-Hurst,
Hayling Island, Havant, Hants.

1875 SCHINDLEE, GENERAL A. H., c/o Messrs. W. Dawson and
Son, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.G.

1895 SELBY, HENRY JOHN, ESQ., The Vale, Shortlands, Kent.
1890 SELTMAN, E. J., ESQ., Kinghoe, Great Berkhamsted, Herts.
1900 SHACKLES, GEORGE L., ESQ., Southfield, Hessle, near Hull.

1896 SIMPSON, E. C., ESQ., Huntriss How, Scarborough.

1893 *SiMS, JR. F. MANLEY-, ESQ., 11, Sumner Place, South

Kensington, S.W.

1896 SINHA, KUMVAR KUSHAL PAL, BATS OF KOTLA, Kotla, Agra,
; , India.

1883 SMITH, E. HOBART, ESQ., 542, West 150th Street, New
York.

1866 SMITH, SAMUEL, ESQ., 25, Croxteth Eoad, Prince's Park,
Liverpool.

1890 SMITH, W. BERESFORD, ESQ., Kenmore, Vanbrugh Park Eoad
West, Blackheath.

1892 SMITH, VINCENT A., ESQ., Gwynfa, Cheltenham.

1881 SMITHE, J. DOYLE, ESQ., F.G.S., Ecclesdin, Upper Norwood.

1890 *SPENCE, C. J., ESQ., South Preston Lodge, North Shields.

1894 SPINK, SAMUEL M., ESQ., 17, Piccadilly, W.

1902 STAINER, CHARLES LEWIS, ESQ., 10, South Parks Eoad,
Oxford.

1890 STANFORD, CHARLES G. THOMAS-, ESQ., 3, Ennismore
Gardens, S.W.

1889 STORY, MAJOR-GEN. VALENTINE FREDERICK, The Forest,
Nottingham.

1869 *STREATFEILD, EEV. GEORGE SIDNEY, Fenny Compton Eectory.
Leamington.

1896 STRIDE, ARTHUR LEWIS, ESQ., J.P., Bush Hall, Hatfield.
1894 STROEHLIN, M. P. C., 86, Eoute de ChSne, Geneva, Switzer-

1864

LIST OF MEMBEES. 13

ELECTED

1870 SUGDEN, JOHN, ESQ., Dockroyd, near Keighley.

1896 *TAFFS, H. W., ESQ., 35, Greenholm Eoad, Eltham, S.E.

1879 TALBOT, LiEUT.-CoL. THE HON. MILO GEORGE, E.E., 2, Paper

Buildings, Temple, E.G.

1897 TALBOT, W. S., ESQ., I.C.S., c/o Messrs. King & Co., 9, Pall

Mall S.W.

1888 TATTON,THos.E.,EsQ.,Wythenshawe, Northenden, Cheshire.

1892 TAYLOR, E. WRIGHT, ESQ., F.S.A., 8, Stone Buildings,
Lincoln's Inn, W.C.

1887 TAYLOR, W. H., ESQ., The Croft, Wheelwright Eoad,
Erdington, near Birmingham.

1887 THAIRLWALL, T. J., ESQ., 12,' Upper Park Eoad, Haverstock

Hill, N.W.

1880 *THEOBALD, W., ESQ., North Brow, 9, Croffcsea Park,

Ilfracombe.

1896 THOMPSON, HERBERT, ESQ., 35, Wimpole Street, W.

1896 THORBURN, HENRY W., ESQ., Cradock Villa, Bishop Auck-
land.

1903 THORPE, GODFREY F., ESQ., 32, Nightingale Lane, S.W.

1888 THURSTON, E., ESQ., Central Government Museum, Madras.

1895 TILLSTONE, F. J., ESQ., The Librarian, Brighton Public
Library, Church Street, Brighton.

1894 TRIGGS, A. B., ESQ., Bank of New South Wales, Yass, New
South Wales.

1880 TRIST, J. W., ESQ., F.S.A., F.S.I., 3, Great St. Helens, E.G.
1887 TROTTER, LIEUT. -CoL. HENRY, C.B., United Service Club.

1874 VERITY, JAMES, ESQ., The Headlands, Earls Heaton, Dewsbury.

1903 VINTER, WALTER FREDERICK, ESQ., Glenville, Walton-on-
Thames, Surrey.

1893 VIRTUE, HERBERT, ESQ., 7, City Garden Eow, City Eoad, N.
1874 VIZE, GEORGE HENRY, ESQ., 15, Spencer Eoad, Putney, S.W.

1899 VLASTO, MICHEL P., ESQ., 12,Allee des Capucines, Marseilles,
France.

1892 VOST, DR. W., Jaunpur, North West Provinces, India.

1902 WAKLEY, THOMAS, ESQ., JUN., L.E.C.P., 16, Hyde Park Gate,
S.W.

14 LIST OF MEMBERS.

ELECTED

1883 WALKER, E. K., ESQ., M.A., Trin. Coll. Dub., Watergate,
Meath Eoad, Bray, Ireland.

1897 WALTERS, FRED. A., ESQ., F.S.A., 37, Old Queen Street,
Westminster, S.W.

1894 WARD, JOHN, ESQ., J.P., F.S.A., Lenoxvale, Belfast,
Ireland.

1889 WARREN, COL. FALKLAND, C.M.G., 911, Nicola Street, Van-
couver, British Columbia.

1901 *WATTERS, CHARLES A., ESQ., Highfield, Woolton Eoad,
Wavertree, Liverpool.

1901 WEBB, PERCY H., ESQ., Walton-on-Thames.

1887 * WEBER, EDWARD F., ESQ., 58, Alster, Hamburg, Germany.

1885 * WEBER, F. PARKES, ESQ., M.D., F.S.A., 19, Harley Street,

1883 *WEBER, SIR HERMANN, M.D., 10, Grosvenor Street, Gros-

venor Square, W.

1884 WEBSTER, W. J., ESQ., 19, The Parade, Norbury, S.E.

1899 WELCH, FRANCIS BERTRAM, ESQ., B.A., 8, York View
Pocklington, East Yorks.

1883 WHELAN, F. E., ESQ., 6, Bloomsbury Street, W.C.
1869 *WIGRAM, MRS. LEWIS, Eedcourt, Haslemere.

1881 WILLIAMSON, GEO. C., ESQ., F.E.S.L., The Mount, Guildford,
burrey.

1869 WINSER, THOMAS B., ESQ., 81, Shooter's Hill Eoad, Blackheath,
1868 WOOD, HUMPHREY, ESQ., F.S.A., Chatham.

1860 WORMS, BARO* r G DE F.E.G.S., F.S.A., V.P.E.S.L., F.G.S.,
D.L., J.P., 17, Park Crescent, Portland Place, W.

1903 WRIGHT, H. NELSON, ESQ., Allahabad, North West Provinces,
1880 WROTH, W. W., ESQ., British Museum.

ESQ " 7 ' LeiDSter Garfe ' Hyde
1880 YOUNG, AETHUB W., ESQ., 12, Hyde Park Terrace, W.

LIST OF MEMBERS. 15

ELECTED

1898 YOUNG, JAMES, ESQ., 44, Beresford Eoad, Highbury, N.

1900 ZIMMEEMANN, REV. JEREMIAH, M.A., D.D., LL.D., 107, South
Avenue, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.

HONORARY MEMBERS.

ELECTED

1898 His MAJESTY VICTOR EMMANUEL III, KING OF ITALY,
Palazzo Quirinale, Borne.

1891 BABELON, M. ERNEST, Mem. de 1'Jnst., Bibliotheque Nationale,
Paris.

1903 BAHRFELDT, OBERSTLEUTNANT M., Kronprinzenstrasse, 6,
Halle, Saxony.

1862 BARTHELEMY, M. A. DE, 9, Eue d'Anjou, Paris.

1898 BLANCHET, M. J. A., 40, Avenue Bosquet, Paris.
1881 DANNENBERG, HERR H., N.W., Lessingstrasse, Berlin.

1899 DROUIN, M. EDMOND, 47, Avenue Kleber, Paris.

1898 DRESSEL, DR. H., Munz-Kabinet, K. Museen, Berlin.

1899 GABRICI, PROF. DR. ETTORE, Salita Stella, 21, Naples.
1893 GNECCHI, SIG. FRANCESCO, 10, Via Filodrammatici, Milan.

1886 HERBST, HERR C. F., Director of the Museum of Northern
Antiquities and Inspector of the Coin Cabinet, Copenhagen,

1886 HILDEBRAND, DR. HANS, Eiksantiquarien, Stockholm.

1873 IMHOFF-BLUMER, DR. F., Winterthur, Switzerland.

1893 JONGHE, M. le VICOMTE B. DE, Rue du Trone, 60, Brussels.

1878 KENNER, DR. F., K.K. Museen, Vienna.

1893 LOEBBECKE, HERR A., Ccllerstrasse, 1, Brunswick.

1898 MADDEN, F. W., ESQ., Holt Lodge, 86, London Road,
Brighton.

1898 MILANI, PROF., Luigi Adriano, Florence.

1899 PICK, DR. BEHRENDT, Herzogliche Bibliothek, Gotha.
1895 REINACH, M. THEODORE, 26, Rue Murillo, Paris.

LIST OF MEMBERS.

ELECTED

KLEUTKU ir i -I -It

1891 SVOEONOS, M. J. N., Conservateur du Cabinet des Medailles,

Athens.
1886 WEIL, DR. BUDOLF, Konigliche Museen, Berlin.

MEDALLISTS

OF THE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY OF LONDON.

1883 CHARLES ROACH SMITH, ESQ., F.S.A.

1884 AQUILLA SMITH, ESQ., M.D., M.E.I. A.

1885 EDWARD THOMAS, ESQ., F.E.S.

1886 MAJOR-GENERAL ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM, C.S.I., C.I.E.

1887 JOHN EVANS, ESQ., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., P.S.A.

1888 DR. F. IMHOOF-BLUMER, of Winterthur.

1889 PROFESSOR PERCY GARDNER, Litt.D., F.S.A.

1890 MONSIEUR J. P. Six, of Amsterdam.

1891 DR. C. LUDWIG MULLER, of Copenhagen.

1892 PROFESSOR E. STUART POOLE, LL.D.

1893 MONSIEUR W. H. WADDINGTON, Senateur, Membre de 1'Institut,

Paris.

1894 CHARLES FRANCIS KEARY, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A.

1895 PROFESSOR DR. THEODOR MOMMSEN, of Berlin.

1896 FREDERIC W. MADDEN, ESQ., M.E.A.S.

1897 DR. ALFRED VON SALLET, of Berlin.

1898 THE EEV. CANON W. GREENWELL, M.A., F.E.S., F.S.A.

1899 MONSIEUR ERNEST BABELON, Membre de 1'Institut, Con-

servateur des Medailles, Paris.

1900 PROFESSOR STANLEY LANE-POOLE, M.A., Litt.D.

1901 S. E. BARON WLADIMIR VON TIESENHAUSEN.

1902 ARTHUR J. EVANS, ESQ., M.A., F.E.S., F.S.A., Keeper of the

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

1903 MONSIEUR GUSTAVE SCHLUMBERGER, Membre de 1'Institut,

France.

1904 His MAJESTY VICTOR EMMANUEL III, KING OF ITALY.

THE HISTORY AND COINAGE OF AETA-
XERXES III., HIS SATEAPS AND DEPENDANTS.

AKTAXEKXES II., King of Persia, an effeminate and feeble
ruler, died in the year 358 B.C., after a long reign of
forty-six years, during which the Empire decayed, and in
fact was threatened with dissolution. Droysen says of
him that he played the role of a ball in the hands of his
harem and his eunuchs. Inter alia he had married his
own daughters Amestris and Atossa.

His eldest son Darius had already at the age of twenty-
five been invested with the succession, and, as Plutarch
tells us, had been permitted to wear the point of his tiara
erect as a mark of royalty. Darius asked as a favour
from his father the hand of Aspasia, who had been the
mistress of Cyrus the younger and was now one of the
King's concubines. Artaxerxes gave her her choice and
she selected to go with Darius, but the King presently
took her away from him again and made her a priestess
of Anaitis, whom Plutarch styles the Diana of Ecbatana.
She was thus compelled to adopt a life of perpetual
chastity. This was highly resented by Darius, who was
further incited by one of the grandees of the Court,
Tiribazus, who had himself a grievance, since he had
been successively promised the hands of his two daughters
Amestris and Atossa by the King, who had subsequently

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married them himself. They accordingly formed a con-
spiracy against Artaxerxes. This was disclosed to him by
a eunuch, who informed him that the conspirators intended
to enter his chamber at night and kill him. The King,
says Plutarch, had a hole made in the wall of his room,
covered it with tapestry, and then watched the proceed-
ings of the conspirators, and as they advanced sword in
hand to kill him he withdrew into an inner room, the door
of which he bolted. Tiribazus was seized by the guards
and put to death after a terrible struggle. Darius was
tried and condemned to. death and was executed ; some
affirmed that he was decapitated by his own father, who
afterwards went to the temple of Ormuzd to return
thanks to his god for his escape. Ariaspes was the
second and only remaining legitimate son of Artaxerxes.
He was a favourite of the Persians on account of his
mildness and good disposition. He presently committed
suicide, being incited to do so by the supposed threats of
his father, which were in reality invented by his ambitious
and illegitimate brother Ochus, in Old Persian, Vahuka.

Arsames, who was his father's favourite, and like
Ochus born of a concubine, was now looked upon as the
successor to the throne. Ochus, who was encouraged by
Atossa, with whom he had intrigued, incited Harpates,
the son of Tiribazus, to assassinate him. All this we
learn from Greek sources, and the Greeks hated, and had
indeed occasion to hate, Ochus bitterly. According to
Plutarch the successive loss of his sons at length over-
whelmed Artaxerxes with trouble, and he died, he says,
at the age of ninety-four, after a reign of sixty-two
years. Diodorus says he reigned forty-three, but it
would seem in fact that he reigned forty-six years.

There was now no one to dispute the succession with

COINAGE OF ARTAXERXES III. 3

Ochus, who mounted the throne with the title of
Artaxerxes III. He is described by the Greeks as cruel,
merciless and truculent, but there is no doubt he was
endowed with courage and vigour. Nbeldeke says of
him that he was one of those despots who can raise up
again for a time a decayed Oriental Empire, who shed
blood without scruple, and are not nice in the choice of
means, but who in the actual position of affairs usually
contribute to the welfare of the State as a whole.

For the chronology of this period the safest and, so far
as we know, the impeccable guide is the Astronomical
Canon of the Persian Kings. According to this Canon
Artaxerxes mounted the throne in the 390th year of the
aera of Nabonassar, i.e. November 359-November 358 B.C.
According to a statement of Polysenus, vii. 17, he, in
conjunction with the eunuchs, the chamberlain, and
the captain of the guard, disguised the late king's death
for ten months, during which he wrote circular letters in
his father's name and sealed them with the royal
signet. In one of them he commanded all his subjects
to obey himself, Ochus, as their king. This mandate
was universally complied with. Thereupon Ochus
publicly acknowledged his father's death and ordered
a general mourning for him in the Persian fashion.

This postponement of the publication of his death
accounts, according to Judeich, for the disagreement of
the Koyal Persian Canon, which was kept at head-
quarters, where the truth was probably known, with the
epigraphic evidence from Asia Minor, and he suggests
that if we date the death of Artaxerxes Mnemon about
the 1st of May, 358, then Ochus may be supposed to
have officially mounted the throne about the 1st of
March, 357 (Kleinasiatische Studien, 230-231). The new

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4 NUMISMATIC CHKONICLE.

king began his reign by putting to death his near
relations and such as might raise pretensions to the
throne. If we are. to credit the late writers Justin and
Curtius, he buried alive his own sister Ocha, whose
daughter he had married, and having placed his uncle
with one hundred of his sons and grandsons in an open
court, he had them shot down with arrows. This uncle,
says M. Dubeux, was probably the father of Sisygambis,
the mother of Darius Codomannus, for Q. Curtius tells
us he put to death eighty of her brothers together with
her father in one day (see Justin, x. 3, 1 ; Curtius, x.
5, 23). This remedy for potential turbulence, which
always grates against the Western conscience, has been
often justified by the experience of the East as a very
rough means to a good end.

If we are to follow the statement of Polyaenus above
quoted, Ochus was everywhere acknowledged as sovereign,
but the seeds of disaffection and of rebellion were plenti-
fully planted everywhere, and this quiet succession was
the prelude to speedy disillusions.

The provincial governors had been too long in the
hands of an impotent prince to tolerate a tight rein.
One of the first acts of Ochus was to send a representative
to the coast satraps of Asia Minor, from whom the
greatest danger might be apprehended, commanding
them to dismiss their mercenary troops, which were the
great source of their power. This order was obeyed
(Scholiast to Dem., I. Phil. iv. 19) ; but as Artaxerxes,
not content with this disarmament, determined to bring
to account Artabazes, the satrap of the Hellespontine
Phrygia, who had his seat of government at Daskylion ;
for the part he had taken in the revolts of the
previous reign, Artabazes determined to resist. He was

COINAGE OF ARTAXEEXES III. 5

the nephew of the late king, and was therefore a
dangerous rival as well as a powerful personage (see
Diodorus, xvi. 22, 1). He had married the sister of two
famous Rhodian condottieri, Mentor and Memnon, who
commanded his mercenaries.

In 356 Artabazes entered into an alliance with the
Athenian admiral Chares, and they presently completely
routed the army of the Persian king, which numbered
70,000 men, the commander of which was named
Tithraustes, or perhaps Mithraustes.

Chares also seized Lampsacus and Sigeion, towns
having very close ties with the Persian king. Artabazes
rewarded Chares with a very handsome largess to pay
his soldiers with. Diodorus tells us that at first this
news was pleasing to the Athenians, and there were
in fact rejoicings at Athens, but presently, finding the
resentment it had caused in Persia, whence Artaxerxes
sent his envoys to lodge a complaint, they repented.
The Great King also threatened to join the league of the
four towns of Chios, Ehodes, Cos and Byzantium, which
had been for some time at war with Athens, with a fleet
of 300 sail. The Athenians were thoroughly frightened,
recalled Chares and made peace with the confederated
towns. Thus was concluded the Social War. Chares
apparently returned to Athens in 354 B.C. (Judeich, 211).

Artabazes now turned to the Thebans for help, who
sent 5,000 men under Pammenes to his assistance, while
Philip of Macedon, who was friendly to him, accompanied
him to Maroneia. This action of the Thebans greatly
increased their fame, for they were being hard pressed in
the Phokian war at the time. Pammenes is reported to
have won two victories over the troops of the Imperial
satraps. According to Polyaenus, vii. 33, 2, the two

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confederates presently quarrelled, and Artabazes had
Pammenes arrested on a charge of treachery.

About 351 B.C. the Thebans had apparently withdrawn
their contingent from Asia Minor and made peace with
the Great King, having been corrupted by a present of
300 talents, and we find them in that year appealing to
him for help in the Phokian war. We do not know what
became of Artabazes for some time. He apparently fled
to Macedonia with Memnon, while Mentor went to Egypt.
He does not seem to have struck any money during his
usurpation. Nor do we know of any coins at all struck
in his special satrapy of Phrygia so early as his time.

Meanwhile Orontes, who had married Ehodogune,
daughter of the late king, another turbulent satrap
who no doubt felt uncomfortable under the tighter rein
of the new Persian sovereign, and perhaps had reason to
fear punishment from him, also rebelled. He also, no
doubt, cherished the hope of retaining the control of the
maritime districts of Western Asia Minor, which he had
now held for some years.

Orontes was a very notable person in the history of
the fourth century B.C. and it is only lately that his
history has been partially disentangled. From an in-
scription found by the Germans at Pergamon and
containing a fragment of a local chronicle we learn that
he was the son of Artasyras and that he was a Bactrian
by origin (see Pergamene Inscriptions, no. 613). On a
second inscription found at Nimrud Dagh on the tomb
of Antiochus the First, king of Commagene, who was his
descendant, we read, " To the memory of Aroandes, son of
Artasuras, who married Khodogune, daughter of the
King of Kings, the great Artaxerxes, called Mnemon "
(Hermann and Puchstein, Reisen). Aroandes, as Eeinach

COINAGE OF AETAXERXES III. 7

has shown, is only the Armenian form Eruant of the
name Orontes. These inscriptions make it plain that
the Orontes who occupied and fortified Pergamon in the
reign of Artaxerxes the Third was the same Orontes who
as early as 401 B.C., when he had already married
Khodogune, was satrap of Armenia, as we learn from
Xenophon and Trogus Pompeius (Prol. x.). He had
commanded the land forces of the Great King in his war
against Evagoras the First of Cyprus, while Tiribazes
commanded the sea forces (Diodorus, xv. 2), and pre-
sently conspired against the latter and persuaded the
Great King to withdraw him, and himself negociated
peace with Evagoras in 380 B.C. After a while
an inquiry was instituted, Tissaphernes was restored to
favour and Orontes was probably compromised and
apparently transferred to another government, for when
we next hear of him he is styled Satrap of Mysia
(Diodorus, xv. 90, 3) ; according to Noeldeke this is the
only occasion when Mysia is treated as a satrapy, and it
was perhaps constituted specially for him. At all events
his position as a son-in-law of the late king and as
a successful soldier led to his being appointed leader
in the great rebellion of the satraps which took place
about 367 B.C., in which almost the whole of Asia Minor,
Syria and Phosnicia were compromised. It would seem
that Orontes now became the dominant factor in the
politics of the maritime districts of Asia Minor, and re-
mained so more or less for many years in fact till his
disappearance from Western Asia Minor about 349 B.C.,
Autophradates, who was loyal to Artaxerxes, was at this
time the satrap of Lydia and Ionia.

We must assign to this time Orontes' occupation and
fortification of Pergamon, of which epigraphic evidence

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was found by the Germans in their excavations there,
and his struggle in Ionia and Lydia with Autophradates,
mentioned by Polyamus (vii. 14, 2-4). In 354 and 353 B.C.
Orontes was again in open strife with the Great King,
as is clear from a speech of Demosthenes (De Symmoriis,
186). In the following year we must date some of the
monumental records in which Orontes is mentioned
(C.I.A. ii. 108) in transactions and schemes of alliance
with Athens, where the Persian and Anti-Persian parties
ruled the roost by turns. An inscription dated in that
year records the conferring of honours upon him by the
Athenians (see Judeich, op. eit. 213-216). Judeich
speaks of Orontes and the King of Egypt as in fact the
most powerful opponents of the Great King, and says
the former must have controlled the greater part of the
coast of Western Asia Minor. The Athenians, accord-
ing to an inscription, put their commanders, Chares,
Charidemos and Phokion, at his service (Judeich, 213).
This alliance may be placed between 354 and 350 B.C., at
which latter date we find the Athenian Phokion taking
part in the Cyprian expedition organised by Idrieus of
Caria on behalf of the Great King (Judeich, 213, 219).
Orontes now seems to have returned to Armenia.

It is very probable that some of the finest coins struck
at Lampsacus were issued during his usurpation, and it
seems to me very probable that the head of a Persian
satrap on a well-known Lampsacene stater in the Hun-
terian Collection represents Orontes, as Von Sallet and
Six also think (see Num. Chron. 1888, p. 113). Other
coins in silver and bronze, with the head of Pallas or
Zeus or a man's head with a Persian headdress on one
side and on the other a winged horse, and identical
with the coins of lolla, only bearing the name OPONTA,

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and therefore clearly struck by Orontes, have by some
been attributed to Lampsacus, and by others to lolla, both
being in Mysia, and both having used the winged pegasus
as a type. Others again, with a naked warrior kneeling
and defending himself with a shield and a short spear on
the obverse, and with the fore-part of a winged boar in
an incuse square and signed OPONTA, have been attri-
buted to Clazomenae on account of the reverse type
(see B. M. Cat., Ionia, p. 326). These coins have been
also attributed to Tarsus, from the T between the
warrior's legs, but we have no evidence that Orontes
ever had authority at Tarsus. His role was in Western
Asia Minor, and this letter must mean something else.
Orontes, as we have seen, was styled satrap of Mysia by
Diodorus, and I would suggest that the T stands for
Teuthrania, a famous town if not the capital of Mysia, of
which an account is given by Six (see Num. Chron. 1890,
pp. 188-190), and it may be that the winged boar on
some of the anepigraphic coins of Clazomenae may, as in
the case of these coins with the T, refer not to Clazomense
but to Teuthrania. It is at all events clear that the fabric
of these coins is quite different from those of Tarsus, to
which place Babelon also repudiates their attribution,
and that they must belong to Western Asia Minor (Les
Perses Achemenides, Ixxiv., note 5).

It is nevertheless curious that the kneeling hoplite
should occur both on this coin and also on true coins of
Tarsus with Aramaic letters representing the beginning
of its name. Waddington very ingeniously, and I think
rightly, explained the figure as the result of the changed
tactics introduced by Chabrias the Athenian admiral.
We read of him that he taught his soldiers when charged
by the enemy to kneel on one knee, to rest their shield

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against their other knee, and to hold their lances at the
rest (Polysen. ii. 1, 2 ; Corn. Nepos, Chabrias). C. Nepos
says the device became so famous in Greece that Chabrias
chose to have his own statue, which was erected in his
honour by the Athenians in the forum, in this posture. It
is precisely the attitude of the hoplite on the coins, and
it is well to remember that the careers of Orontes and
Chabrias were largely contemporary and that the latter
commanded an Athenian fleet which was in the pay of
the King of Egypt in his war against Artaxerxes
Mnemon, when the revolted districts of Asia Minor, which
included Cilicia, and therefore Tarsus, were in alliance
with him. It seems to me that we must also assign to
this famous and very powerful prince (i.e. Orontes) some
other coins, all apparently of this date and struck in
different parts of the coast region of Asia Minor, where
he was virtually king. Among these the most famous is
a splendid tetradrachm in the British Museum (see
Catalogue of Ionia, pi. xxxi. 6) with a remarkable head
of a satrap on the obverse, while on the reverse we have a
lyre such as occurs on the coins of Colophon, and on
some uncommon coins of lasos in Caria, with the inscrip-
tion BAZIA. I see no reason to doubt the attribution
of this coin to Colophon, and it seems to me that its
style makes it very unlikely to be a Carian coin as Six
and Babelon have argued, nor does it seem probable
that the head on the obverse, which is not crowned with
the eidaris, but wears the ordinary head-dress of a
satrap, can be anybody else than the satrap himself.
Upon this I quite agree with Babelon (op. cit. xxxiv.),
but I differ from him as to the satrap who issued it. He
argues it was Tissaphernes. I think the evidence points
strongly to its having been Orontes. It will be remem-

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bered that Plutarch, in his life of Aratus, says that
the face of Orontes, the Persian, was like that of
Alkmseon, son of Amphiarus, which makes the beautiful
portrait on this coin more interesting. Basileus would be
a style fitting to Orontes at this time. The same head
occurs on the obverse of another coin in the Munich
Collection, on the reverse of which is a horseman
apparently in Persian dress, riding to the left, under
which is the inscription KIZGA, i.e. Cisthene, a town in
Mysia, which I would also attribute to Orontes (see
Babelon, op. cit. Ixxiv.).

I am further disposed to transfer from Tissaphernes to
Orontes three other well-known coins, one formerly in
the Fox collection and now at Berlin, with a satrap's
head very like in features to the Colophon tetradrachm
above mentioned and with the same head-dress, and on
the reverse the kneeling figure of the great king wearing
the cidaris&nd. holding a bow and spear, inscribed BAZIA,
and having a galley with one row of oars in the
field (see Babelon, op. cit. p. xxxii.) A drachm with
the same obverse and reverse types is in the British
Museum (Cat. of Ionia, p. Ixxxi. 7) and is inscribed BAH.
A similar hemidrachm is in the French Collection and
inscribed BA (see Babelon Cat., No. 167).

Let us now return again to Artaxerxes. Soon after
his accession, it would seem from a somewhat vague and
indefinite statement in Diodorus that he made an
attempt to conquer Egypt, but he was unfortunate (Diod.
Sic., xvi. 40). The Egyptian forces on that occasion
were commanded by Diophantos the Athenian and
Lamios the Spartan (id. xvi. 48). It does not seem that
he commanded his own army in person. However this
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largely encouraged the revolt of the Phoenicians and
other dependants of the Great King in the Mediterranean.

The Spartan faction seems also to have filled a con-
spicuous role at the time in the Egyptian army (see
Polysen., Strat. ii. 66 ; Front., Strat. ii. 3, 13). Theo-
pompus has a rhetorical passage describing the loyalty
of the various allies and dependants of the Persian king
at this time. " What city or what nation of Asia," he
says, " did not send embassies to the sovereign ? What
wealth did they not lavish on him, whether the natural
products of the soil or the rare and precious productions
of art ? Did he not receive a quantity of tapestry and
woven hangings, some of purple, some of divers colours,
others of pure white ?, many gilded pavilions completely
furnished and containing an abundant supply of linen
and sumptuous beds ?, chased silver, wrought gold, cups
and bowls, enriched with precious stones, or valuable for
the perfection and richness of their work? He also
received untold supplies of barbarian and Grecian
weapons, and still larger numbers of draught cattle and
sacrificial victims, bushels of preserved fruit, bales and
sacks full of parchments and books, and all kinds of
useful articles. So great was the quantity of salted
meats which poured in from all sides that from a distance
the piles might easily be mistaken .for rows of hillocks
or high mounds" (Frag. 125 in Miiller's Frag. Hist.
Grizc., vol. i., 298-9; Maspero, The Passing of the
Empires, 766).

At this time the focus and capital of Phoenicia was
Tripolis, which, says Diodorus, comprised three cities all
within a furlong (stadium) of each other, namely, the
quarter of the Sidonians, of the Tyrians, and of the
Aradians respectively. It was there the senate met to

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deliberate upon the affairs of the country. The Great
King was represented there by his satrap or legate,
who treated the townsmen haughtily and tyrannically,
and they determined to rebel. Having concerted a
common policy with the rest of the Phoenicians, the
townsmen approached Nectanebo, the Egyptian king,
who was then at issue with the Persian king; they
offered him their alliance, and they prepared for war.

Inasmuch as Sidon was the richest of all the Phoenician
towns, and its merchants had great fortunes, its inhabitants
determined to build a large number of triremes, to enlist
a large body of mercenaries, and to bring together ample
arms and provisions, and in order to begin the struggle
and to compromise the position, they destroyed the royal
garden or Paradeison, in which the Persian kings had
been wont to amuse themselves, and they cut down its
trees. Maspero says, I do not know on what authority,
that it was in the Lebanon. They then set fire to the
forage which the satraps had collected to feed the
horses with this was apparently a provision prepared for
the coming Egyptian war ; and lastly, they seized and
executed the Persian officials who had ill-used them.
Thus, whatever offence was committed by others, there
can be no doubt the Sidonians had especially incurred
the wrath of Artaxerxes.

The revolt of the Phoenicians and Cyprians aroused
the Great King to make a vigorous effort to reinstate
the fortunes of the Empire, and he determined not again
to entrust the task of re-conquering the rebels to his
incapable or unfortunate lieutenants, but to take com-
mand of the forces himself ; and he accordingly prepared
a great armament with large supplies of arms and an
ample commissariat. His army consisted of 300,000 foot-

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soldiers and 30,000 cavalry, with a fleet of 300 triremes
and 500 transports and provision ships, and having
assembled it at Babylon, he marched westwards. This
was apparently in the year 345 or 344 B.C.

While he was on the march, Belesys, the satrap of
Syria, and Mazaios, the satrap of Cilicia, assembled their
forces and attacked Phoenicia. Meanwhile Tennes, the
king of Sidon, secured the help of a contingent of 4,000
men under the command of the skilled condottiere Mentor
the Khodian. These were sent him by the Egyptian
king, and with their help and that of the citizens he
attacked the two satraps just mentioned, who no doubt
had marched against him from the north, and expelled
the Persians from Phoenicia.

Meanwhile a similar revolt took place in Cyprus,
where there were at this time nine petty kings who ruled
over nine considerable cities, under whose authority were
ranged the lesser towns. These kings had all acknow-
ledged the supremacy of the Persian king. They now
conspired together, and each one proclaimed himself
independent. Artaxerxes, furious at this act, whic'h
certainly bordered on insolence, wrote to Idrieus, Prince
of Caria, and bade him send ships and an army of foot-
soldiers to reduce the island.

About the year 353 B.C. there had died Maussolus, the
king or rather the hereditary satrap of Caria, and faithful
friend of the Great King. He was succeeded by his
wife and sister Artemisia, who, two years later, also died,
after building the famous Mausoleum for her husband,
of which the remains are in the British Museum. She
was in turn succeeded by her brother Idrieus, who had
also married his sister Ada. It was the fashion in Caria
for kings to marry their sisters, and the widows succeeded

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their husbands, to the prejudice of their living brothers
and also of the sons of the late king.

Idrieus equipped 40 triremes, on which he put a force
of 8,000 mercenaries under the leadership of the condot-
tiere Phokion of Athens and of Evagoras, who had some
years before been over-king of the island, or rather of
the Phoenician settlements there, and was now an exile.
His banishment had perhaps been due to his having sided
with the Persians. This force was sent to Cyprus, and
proceeded to attack Salamis, the largest of the Cyprian
towns. They dug a trench and built themselves a for-
tress, and beleaguered the town by sea and land. The
island had long been at peace, and was very rich, whence
the invading troops secured a large booty. This having
been noised abroad, they were speedily recruited from
the opposite coasts of Syria and Cilicia. In this way
the army of Phokion and Evagoras was doubled in size,
and the petty kings were reduced to dire distress. Shortly
after this Phokion returned to Athens and took part in
the war with Euboea in 349 B.C.

Let us now return to Ochus. He marched, as I have
said, from Babylon to Phoenicia. Tennes, the King of
Sidon, was terrified at the appearance of such a force and
the disparity in numbers between it and his own army.
He determined to save his own skin, and accordingly
either he or his mercenary general (the account is
confused, and perhaps it was the latter), sent one of his
confidential officers named Thersalion to Artaxerxes,
with an offer to surrender Sidon to him, and further
promised to help him against Egypt, which he could
the more easily do as he knew the country well and
knew the various fords across the Nile.

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Thersalion, and promised to reward Tennes greatly if lie
carried out his promise. Thersalion asked the Great King
to hold out his hand as a token of his sincerity as
was the wont among the Persians a demand which
greatly angered him, for it seemed an imputation upon
his integrity ; but he eventually consented to do so, and
Thersalion returned to his people (Diod. Sic., xvi.
41-43).

The Great King had a much more important object than
the subjection of Sidon and the Phoenician towns, namely,
to recover his hold upon Egypt, which had so much
baffled him, and he determined to use all the weapons
he could command for the purpose. He sent envoys
to ask help from the Greek cities. The Sacred War was
almost at an end. The Athenians and Lacedaemonians
sent him sympathetic messages, but no material aid.
The Thebans sent him 1,000 heavy-armed men under
Lacrates, while the Argives sent him 3,000, who were
placed under Theostratos, the King's own nominee. He
was famous both for his courage and his prudence, and
also for his great physical strength, and imitated Her-
cules in that he wore a lion's skin and carried a club
when fighting. The Greeks of Asia Minor also sent a
contingent of 6,000 men under Bagoas, so that the Greek
contingent mounted up to 10,000 men.

Meanwhile, Ochus arrived before Sidon, whose in-
habitants had determined to resist him in the most des-
perate fashion. They had girdled their city with a triple
ditch and also built a wall around it, and duly equipped
it for a great struggle. Its citizens volunteered nobly to
defend their home. They were rich as well as brave, and
we are told by Diodorus that they furnished a fleet of 100
triremes and quinquiremes.

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These preparations were, however, of no avail in view
of the treachery of the Sidonian king (abetted by the
mercenary leader Mentor), or perhaps rather of Mentor,
who dominated the king. They left the place with 500
men on pretence that they were going to attend the
general assembly of the Phoenicians, and also took with
them 100 of the principal citizens. The latter were handed
over to Artaxerxes, who had them mercilessly slaughtered
as authors of the revolt, while he extended a temporary
favour to Tennes. Presently 500 more citizens came
out, bearing olive-branches, for under the circumstances
resistance was hopeless. They asked for mercy for them-
selves and their compatriots, but were ruthlessly put to
death. Afterwards, we are told, Tennes persuaded the
Egyptian mercenaries to surrender the place, and to
allow him and his patron, the Great King, to enter it.

The conduct of Tennes all through this business was
so utterly purposeless and base that it would almost seem
as if Diodorus had not told us the whole truth. At all
events we read with some satisfaction that, judging that
Tennes could no longer be of service to him, Artaxerxes
had his throat cut ; perhaps he executed him because he
failed to secure the actual surrender of the city. The
Sidonians, inspired by one of those acts of dramatic
despair with which history is studded, burnt their ships
lest any of the citizens should try to escape, and when
the enemy entered the place they shut themselves up in
their houses with their wives and children and set fire to
them. It is reported, says Diodorus, that 40,000 of
them, including household servants, thus perished.
After the fire the King sold the ashes for many talents,
for the city was very rich, and a large quantity of gold
and silver was found melted among the ruins. The

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terrible fate of Sidon frightened the other cities of
Phoenicia, which surrendered and again acknowledged the
supremacy of the Great King.

Let us now return to Artaxerxes. Phoenicia and the
greater part of Cyprus being at his feet, the way was
open for him to prosecute what was really his great aim,
namely, the conquest of Egypt. Thither he marched
with all his forces. Diodorus tells us when they reached
the Sirbonian Lake he lost part of his army in the bogs,
then called Barathra, from a want of knowledge of the
country. Having traversed this difficult district, he at
length reached the first mouth of the Nile (that called
Pelusium) where it enters the sea, which had been
strongly fortified by the Egyptians, and where 5,000
men were in garrison under Philophron. These were
doubtless mercenaries and most probably Greeks, for
their captain bears a Greek name.

The Theban contingent in the Persian army made the
first assault upon the ditch, but the place was hotly de-
fended and the attacks on the first day were repelled.
The next day the Greeks were divided into three bodies,
each under a Greek leader, with whom was associated a
trusty Persian.

The first brigade consisted of Boeotians and was led by
the Theban Lacrates ; with him was associated Kosaces,
the satrap of Ionia and Lydia, a man of high descent,
with a great body of horse and foot. Diodorus says these
were all barbarians, that is to say they were not Greeks,
and doubtless comprised various Asiatic contingents.

The second brigade was composed of the contingent
from Argos under Nicostratus, with whom was Aristazanes,
one of the Great King's most trusted friends. He had
5,000 men with him and eighty triremes.

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The third brigade was led by Mentor, who had betrayed
Sidon and had formerly commanded the mercenaries in the
Egyptian service. With him was Bagoas, an able and
unscrupulous man. He commanded the Greeks who were
the Great King's subjects, i.e. the Greeks of Asia Minor,
and a great body of barbarians, besides a large navy.
The rest of the army the King kept in his own hands.

The forces of the Egyptian king Nectanebo were much
smaller in number. He had 20,000 Greek mercenaries,
as many Africans these were probably Libyans and
60,000 Egyptians, besides a great fleet of river boats on
the Nile, and he had fortified the Arabian frontier by
planting there a great number of fortresses well armed
and equipped ; but he was not a soldier, and was vain-
glorious of his former successes when he possessed some
excellent commanders; nor would he allow others to
interfere, but determined to take the command himself.

Having garrisoned the towns, he with 30,000 Egyptians,
5,000 Greeks and half of the Libyans, defended the most
dangerous approaches.

The Argives, under Mcostratus, having seized some
Egyptians, detained their families as hostages and made
the men act as guides. Through their aid they managed
to traverse one of the canals traversing the marshes of
Mensaleh with their fleet, round to a point where their
men were landed and encamped. Here they were attacked
by 7,000 of the enemy under Klinias, of the island of Cos.
The battle was sharp, and Klinias with 5,000 of his men
was killed. This defeat put Nectanebo, the Egyptian
king, into a panic, and he determined to withdraw to his
capital, Memphis.

Meanwhile Lacrates the Theban, who was attacking
Pelusium, managed to drain the trench which girdled the

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town, and raised a mound close by the walls, on which
he planted battering machines with which he battered
the walls. The garrison replaced the breaches with fresh
walls and also raised up high wooden towers. The place
held out for some days, until the garrison heard of the
king's retreat. They then agreed to surrender on con-
dition that they should be allowed to return to Greece
with whatever they brought with them out of the town.
Bagoas was thereupon ordered to garrison Pelusium with
a body of Persians.

The promise to the soldiers who had surrendered was
not kept, and they were deprived of many things they
were carrying, which so exasperated Lacrates that he
attacked the Persians and killed some and put others to
flight, Bagoas among them. When the matter was reported
to Artaxerxes he decided that Lacrates was right and those
who had plundered Philophron's men were punished.

Meanwhile Mentor spread abroad the report that the
Great King would receive graciously and pardon all those
who submitted, while the towns which resisted would be
treated as Sidon had been treated. He also gave their
liberty to all the Egyptian captives he had made. This
artful policy speedily led to dissensions between the rival
Egyptians and Greeks who garrisoned the towns, and
there was a strong party everywhere in favour of surrender.
The first place to do so was Bubastis, whence the Egyptians
sent an envoy to the Greek commanders. He was way-
laid by Mentor's Greek mercenaries, and his employers
were attacked and driven into a corner by their faithless
allies. The Egyptians then sent a fresh messenger to
Bagoas offering to surrender the place. This seems to have
aroused the jealousy of Mentor, who secretly advised the
Greeks in the town of what had taken place, and coun-

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selled them to set upon Bagoas and his Persians directly
they had got them entrapped in the place. This was
done ; Bagoas was captured and had to appeal to Mentor
to rescue him. Mentor then himself persuaded the Greeks
to surrender the place and also to spare Bagoas ; thus the
latter got the credit of capturing the place.

Strange to say, the result of all this was that Mentor
and Bagoas became firm friends and the real masters of
Persia, for Mentor was afterwards made governor of
all the maritime districts of the Empire, and Bagoas was
made satrap of Upper Asia.

The other cities of Lower Egypt followed the example
of Bubastis, and Nectanebo, seeing that his cause was
hopeless, collected a large mass of treasure and fled to
Ethiopia. Thus Artaxerxes recovered Egypt again for
the Persians. He demolished the walls of the chief cities
and spoiled the temples of their treasures of gold and
silver, and also carried away the records from the most
ancient temples. These last, Bagoas presently allowed
the priests to ransom for a large sum of money.

In former days, when fortune had not smiled upon
Artaxerxes, the Egyptians, who hated him bitterly, had
nicknamed him " the ass," which to them was a most
unclean beast. His revenge was characteristic. He
ordered that an ass should be installed in the temple of
Ptah and have divine honours paid to it, while the sacred
bull Apis was slaughtered and served up at a banquet
which he gave his friends on taking possession of " the
White Wall." It was even said that he killed it with his
own hand, whence the Egyptians afterwards called him
" the dagger." The sacred goat of Mendes was also
slaughtered, and, as Maspero suggests, the other sacred
animals probably met the same fate.

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Artaxerxes after his great success sent home the Greek
mercenaries, who had served him so well, with large
rewards, and having appointed Pherendates satrap of
Egypt, he returned to Babylon laden with spoil (Diod. Sic.
xvi. c. 47-52), having also restored the prestige and power
of the Empire to a high condition. The work was really
done very largely by his G-reek commanders and Greek
mercenaries, and when the same forces were marshalled
against it by the strong hand of Alexander presently, the
same Empire fell in pieces like a house of cards.

Let us, however, continue our story. Mentor, the man
of many resources and of scant loyalty, was amply
rewarded for his recent services. He was inter alia
presented with a hundred talents of silver and rich
furniture for his house, and, as we have seen, he was
made governor of all the coast lands of Asia Minor, with
virtually absolute power. Mentor was the brother-in-law
of Artabazes, who, as we have seen, had revolted against
the Persian King. When Athens made peace with
the confederated towns, Artabazes fled to Macedonia to
Philip. Memnon of Ehodes, who afterwards fought so
well against the Macedonians, and who was a brother of
Mentor, had also rebelled against the Great King and
sought refuge with Philip, who was always willing to
harbour the revolted servants of his Eastern rival.
Mentor now secured their pardon from the Great King
and sent for them with their families. Artabazes had
eleven sons and ten daughters, and Diodorus tells us
that Mentor was delighted with his nephews and nieces
and promoted the former to high commands in the army.

His first expedition was against Hermias, the Prince
of Atarnea in Mysia, opposite Lesbos, the friend of
Aristotle, who had rebelled and who possessed many

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strong cities and castles. He inveigled him into a
parley, secured his signet ring and wrote letters in his
name to his various cities, saying that he had been
restored to the royal favour through the interest of
Mentor, and the various governors accordingly gave up
their towns. Hermias was put to death. This manoeuvre
greatly pleased the Great King. By similar adroitness
we are told by Diodorus he secured the obedience of the
other rebellious chieftains (op. cit. xvi. 32).

The growing power of Philip of Macedon, of which
Artaxerxes had been warned by the Athenians, had
opened the eyes of at least one of the Persian grandees,
namely, Arsites the satrap of the Hellespontine Phrygia,
and we read how in 340 B.C. he sent help to the city of
Perinthus when besieged by him, and thus enabled it to
successfully resist his attack (Diod. xvi. 75). The Great
King turned a deaf ear, however, to the prayer of the
Athenian envoys for a subsidy, and even wrote a trucu-
lent reply, embodying his suspicions and containing
menaces which his early death probably prevented him
carrying out. Thus did the Persians lose their most
promising ally in their deadly struggle with Macedon.

As I am trying to make this paper a fairly complete
monograph I ought to say a word about an obscure part
of the reign of Artaxerxes, namely, his dealings with the
Jews. The Jews apparently joined in or sympathised
with the general revolt of Syria and Phoenicia. Ariamnes,
king of Cappadocia, left two sons, Ariarathes and Holo-
phernes. Diodorus tells us that the latter took part with
the Great King in his campaign against Egypt and was
richly rewarded by him, and that, by the affection of
his brother he was raised to the highest dignities (op.
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he was employed by Ochus to pacify Palestine, which
accounts for the prominent place he occupies in the book
of Judith as an enemy of the Jews. We are told that at
this time Jericho was captured by the Persians and the
Great King settled a number of Jews in Hyrcania and
Babylonia (Euseb., Syncellus, s. 486 ; Solinus, xxxv. 4,
s. 171 ; Orosius ed. Mommsen, iii. 7, 61 f.).

It was probably after his return from his expedition to
Egypt, loaded with riches and prestige, that Artaxerxes
built a palace at Persepolis. An inscription still remains
there in which he records his genealogy, his devotion to
Ormuzd and Mithra, and his building of a vaulted
colonnade (Oppert, Records of the Past, First Series, ix.
86 and 87).

Meanwhile, according to Diodorus, Artaxerxes grew
more and more disliked by his people for his ill-nature
and cruelty, and we are told that Bagoas, " a chiliarch
and also a eunuch" doubtless the Bagoas already
mentioned, who was evil-disposed and warlike with the
help of his physician, administered poison to the King,
and put his youngest son Arses on the throne (Diodorus,
vii. 5). The death of Ochus took place in the year
336 B.C.

According to ^Elian (Var. Hist. vi. 8) the news of the
death of Ochus was hailed with great delight in Egypt,
upon which he had pressed with a cruel heel. It was
accepted by the Egyptians as a proof of the vengeance of
the gods whom he had outraged. It was reported that
Bagoas was an Egyptian, that he had been privy to
putting to death the sacred Apis under compulsion, and
that as soon as he could do it in safety he had avenged
the sacrilege. It was further said that he ate a portion
of the dead king's body and threw the rest to the cats.

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He then collected his bones and made them into
whistles and knife handles (^Elian, Var. Hist., ed
Didot, 352-3 ; see Maspero, The Passing of the
Nations, 807). This is of course a mere folk-tale of
the Egyptians, and was probably spread about by
the priests; but it may mean that Bagoas through-
out all this time had remained faithful to his
Egyptian religion and antecedents. This may explain
the story told of him by Josephus. He calls him the
general of "another Artaxerxes," and says he polluted
the Temple at Jerusalem and imposed tribute on the
Jews of a shekel for every lamb they offered in the daily
sacrifices. He further tells us that a certain Jesus or
Joshua was the brother of Johanan or John, the High
Priest, and was a friend of Bagoas or Bagores (as he calls
him), who had promised to get him the high-priesthood,
and relying on this support he quarrelled with Johanan
in the Temple and was killed by him. Josephus
denounces this as a crime which had never before been
committed either by Greek or barbarian, and tells us
that in consequence of it the Jews were enslaved and the
Temple was polluted by the Persians. Bagoas, in fact,
insisted upon entering the Temple, and punished the
Jews for seven years for the murder of Joshua (Ant.
xi. 7).

Let us now turn to the regal and satrapal coins which
were issued during the reign of Ochus. In regard to the
imperial coinage of Artaxerxes, I have three things to say.
In the first place, as in the case of the other Persian
kings, the coinage of gold was no doubt a special privilege
of the sovereign, and was in fact one of the most ex-
clusive privileges retained by him, and, as Babelon says,
" Although there exist some gold coins of the last kings

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of Salamis and Citium, in Cyprus, and of some other
Cypriot dynasts, and of the Carian Pixodaros, it may be
stated as a demonstrated truth that the King of Kings
had the sole right of coining gold coins in Asia. Neither
the kings of Tyre, Sidon, G-ebal, Aradus, nor the Cilician
or Lycian dynasts, nor generally those of Cyprus and
Caria, nor the most powerful satraps nor the most
flourishing towns of Asia Minor struck gold coins "
(op. cit. iv.).

It was no doubt from the Persian kings that the
tradition passed on to Alexander, who reserved to himself
the same privilege exclusively, as did his successors the
SeleucidaB, the Ptolemies, etc. Eventually the Koman
Emperors also treated this coinage as a peculium of their
own, whence as Babelon says, the gold coin was styled
the sacra moneta, that specially reserved for the Emperor.

I have no doubt that the apparent exceptions to this
rule were no real exceptions at all, The reign of
Pixodaros of Caria extended from 341-335 B.C., when the
Persian monarchy was falling to pieces, and it is perhaps
a certain proof that Caria had then passed out of the
hands of the Great King ; while Cyprus was so far off
and so difficult of access that usurpation of such a right
as that of issuing gold coins was probably difficult to
punish if, indeed, the Cyprian towns were ever more
than nominally subject to the satrap of Phoenicia.

Secondly, I believe that the coins struck by the Persian
kings, both in gold and silver, were not struck for use by
their Persian subjects in Persia and the East. Among
them the precious metals passed by weight, and a true
coinage did not probably exist; there being instead a
modified form of barter, in which probably gold and
silver were treated as standards of value, measured by

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weight and not by any artificial value attaching to true
coins.

On the other hand, it seems to me that while the coins
of the Persian rulers were not in all probability struck
for their own immediate subjects in Persia and the far
East, they were, on the other hand, struck for the Greek
cities and districts in Asia Minor and its borders, and
the towns of Phoenicia and Cyprus which were mediately
or immediately subject to the Great King, and were thus
meant to circulate among people who had been accustomed
to the use of coined money from early times. They
were, in fact, especially meant to pay the great fleets
and masses of mercenaries whom the Greeks constantly
supplied for the service of the Great King. The Greeks
resembled the Swiss of later days, in that they qualified
their devotion to democracy at home by becoming the
willing hirelings of every despot abroad ; and the aphorism,
"No money, no Swiss," no doubt equally applied to the
Greeks of old.

This view is also that of a much more learned authority
on such matters, namely Babelon. " Les Perses," he says,
" continuant jusqu'a la fin a avoir recours a la balance
pour peser les lingots metalliques ; c'etait pour le com-
merce de 1'Asie Mineure et pour le paiement de leurs
armees que les Achemenides battaient monnaie. Aussi
parait-il certain que ce fut surtout dans des ateliers d'Asie
Mineure que la darique a ete f rappee " (op. cit. vii.).

This is confirmed by the fact that on a single daric
now in the French collection, instead of an incuse square
we have the representation of the prow of a ship with a
Carian letter on it, which was therefore, with little
doubt, struck in Caria (see Babelon, Cat., no. 124). A
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Montagu sale, and weighing twelve grains, seems only
explicable as having been struck in imitation of the
weight of the small gold coins of Cyprus, with which it
entirely agrees, and it was doubtless struck for use
in Cyprus. Its type is the same as that of the darics
to be presently described, namely, the King marching to
the left, with his left knee bent and holding a bow in
one hand and a spear in the other.

It must also be remembered that a great number of
the sigloi or silver coins of the same types as these darics,
and no doubt dating from the same period, are, as
Babelon has mentioned, countermarked. A number of
these countermarked coins are in the British Museum
collection, and Babelon figures a number of the marks
themselves on plate xxxix. of his work. He says of
them: "Bemarquons que la Lycie, la Pamphylie, la
Cilicie, Cypre meme, paraissent etre les pays ou ces con-
tremarques ont, en general, ete appliquees. La triquetre,
la tetraquetre sont des symboles lyciens qui figurent
frequemment comme contremarques sur les sides perses.
On y trouve souvent aussi les signes qui ressemblent a la
grenade des monnaies de Side en Pamphylie; la croix
ansee parait en Cilicie surtout." He goes on to say that
one of these signs resembles the fta of the Cypriote
syllabary. On one siglos occur the letters 0^, which also
figure on the archaic coins of a satrap of Lycia. The
sign &, mentioned as occurring on a siglos by Fellows,
belongs to the syllabaries of Lycia and Cyprus, while the
curious sign 8-0-3, occurring on certain sigloi, is also
found on Lycian coins (Babelon, xi.).

Evidence that the darics and sigloi were struck
for the Western parts of the Empire, is to be
gathered from the fact that so many of them have

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occurred in the Greek world. A most famous find was
that made in 1839 in the canal ordered to be dug by
Xerxes through Mount Athos. The hoard consisted of 300
darics, together with 100 early tetradrachms of Athens.
They were described by Borrell in the Numismatic
Chronicle, vol. vi., p. 153, note. A number of darics from
this find are in the French collection, and a number of
others which came to the British Museum from the
Woodhouse collection probably had the same prove-
nance.

All these facts tend to show, as I have said, that the
darics and sigloi were largely coined for their Greek
subjects by the Great Kings.

Let us now turn to my third point.

I very much question the attribution of the Persian
coins without letters or inscriptions, which include all
those specially issued by the Great King, to any particular
ruler. It seems to me that all the attempts to classify
them by style, and notably those made by Messrs. Six
and Babelon, and especially the latter, in his classical
work, have failed. The distinctions seem to me arbitrary
and uncertain, as Mr. Head pronounced them to be long
ago, and I confess that I still prefer to say "I do not
know " rather than give spurious and fictitious historical
reputation to coins which they cannot be made to
possess with our present knowledge. I am speaking now
especially of the darics and sigloi, and excluding the
double darics with Greek letters, which I think Mr. Head
has conclusively shown were not struck by the Great
Kings at all, but by Alexander and his successors. It is
no doubt possible to sort these darics and sigloi into
a more primitive and a less primitive series in regard to
style, but in my view we cannot go beyond this and

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assign any of the anepigraphic coins of this class to
particular rulers.

I cannot myself find any criterion by which it is
possible to distinguish them. The iconography of the
coins seems to me to be quite conventional, and except
in the case of two darics to be presently described, to be
really undistinguishable as portraits. M. Babelon, who
has given an elaborate classification of them, tells us
that, apart from some small details in the type of the
archer in a certain class of coins which he puts late,
these coins are as uniform in type as the coins of Athens
or those of Alexander. Their outward appearance, their
weight, and the amount of alloy they contain, remain
constant for two centuries from Darius I. to Darius
Codomannus (op. cit. vii. and viii.).

I am bound to say that I altogether fail to find any
marks by which to separate them definitely. The coins
found at Mount Athos we may with some confidence
attribute to Darius Hystaspis or Xerxes, and they are
attributed by Babelon to the latter. Those from the
Woodhouse collection, which probably come from the same
find, have been attributed in the British Museum, from a
comparison of their type, to Artaxerxes. The coins un-
doubtedly struck in Cyprus by Artaxerxes III., in
conjunction with Evagoras II., and marked with the
initial of the latter name, bear on the obverse the type
of the King bending his bow and without a spear (see
Babelon, plate xvii., 14, 15, and 16). This type is assigned
to Darius Codomannus on another plate of the same
work.

Again, a number of coins have been assigned by
Babelon to Darius Codomannus, upon what grounds I
do not know. On these coins the King, instead of holding

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a bow and a spear, has drawn the bow to the stretch and
has no spear. These coins are rare in gold, but are very
common in silver; so common that it seems incredible
that they should have been issued in such a short and
unsettled reign as that of the last Persian king. I know
of no reason of any kind for this attribution.

Again, in the British Museum series of Persian gold
coins, both darics and double darics, the type, except on
three, is the same throughout on the obverse, namely,
the Great King marching to the right, dressed in a long
robe, with a crown on his head, and holding a spear with
a round knob at the end of it in his right hand, and a
bow in the other. On one coin alone, which is attributed
to Cyrus the Younger by Babelon, the figure is that of a
beardless young man, and not of a bearded one, and the
stuff of which his gown is made is apparently hairy, and
may be made of the material called kainakkes, but I
do not know why the coin should be assigned to Cyrus
the Younger. More than one of the other Achsemenian
kings were young when they mounted the throne.

Whichever way we look at the problem of arranging
the Persian series, therefore, we seem to lack any reliable
criterion by which to distribute them among the different
kings. All we can say is that the series started with
Darius Hystaspis and went on to the end of the dynasty
in the reign of Darius Codomannus, but we cannot, if
we follow inductive methods, assign any of these coins
(from their types) to any particular king. The coins
found at Mount Athos we may, with confidence, assign
to the first Darius or Xerxes. We may presently, per-
haps, similarly assign other coins if we find them with
others of which we otherwise know the date, but this will,
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the coins when their provenance is unknown. I cannot,
therefore, see my way to definitely attribute any of the
Imperial Persian coins specifically to Artaxerxes III.

The coins attributed by Babelon to Bagoas (Cat. Achem.
351-371), and affirmed by him to have been struck in
Egypt, seem to me again to be so attributed on most insuffi-
cient grounds. To my mind they are most clearly coins
of Phoanicia. Bagoas was never satrap of Egypt as far
as we know. He only filled a subordinate position in
the Egyptian war, and was really subject to Mentor.
Directly after the Egyptian war, Artaxerxes nominated
another person, namely, Pherendates, as satrap of Egypt,
and he sent the mercenary soldiers home. Bagoas was
given a satrapy in Upper Asia, where he apparently
continued to live not far from the court, for he was
eventually responsible for the assassination of two of the
Persian kings. How, under these circumstances, he
could possibly have struck coins in Egypt, I do not
know. The only direct reason for attributing these coins
to Egypt given by Babelon, is that on them the man
behind the car wears a tall mitre, like that worn by the
kings of Lower Egypt ; but this was also a Phoenician
head-dress, and is in fact the usual head-dress worn by
the Phoenician deities. Apart from this a precisely
similar figure is found on one of the double staters in
the British Museum, which has on it not the letter 9
only, but the letters 90 (see Hist. Num., p. 672,
figure 354), which are generally treated as the initials of
the Phoenician form of the name of Strato, King of
Sidon. (A similar figure is given in one of Babelon's
own plates, Les Perses Achemenides, pi. xxx., fig. 11.)

It seems plain, therefore, that every reason for attri-
buting these coins to Egypt fails, -and we must resort

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to the views which were generally held before Babelon
wrote his memoir, namely, that the coins in question
were struck in Phoenicia or for Phoenicians.

Let us now shortly consider the Sidonian coins of this
period, which have been admirably treated by M. Babelon.
The King of Sidon, called Tennes by Diodorus, had, as
we have seen, been put on the throne of Sidon on
the revolt of Strato I., by the Persian king, and possibly,
as M. Babelon says, he was not of Semitic origin. On
some of his coins the years of his reign are marked,
and as we have four of these numbers on them, and four
only, it seems probable that he in fact only reigned four
years under the conditions which dominated their issue.
These conditions were undoubtedly that he reigned as
the subordinate of the Persian king. On one side of
these coins we have the representation of a Phoenician
galley propelled by oars and without sails ; on the other
is the portrait of the Great King, with the Phoenician
letters representing the two first letters of the name of
Tennes. The four years just mentioned cover the period
when Artaxerxes II. was succeeded by Artaxerxes III.
The coins of his first year were in fact struck in the last
year of Artaxerxes Mnemon. The king is represented
wearing the cidaris on his head and having on him
the robe called the candys, holding a dagger in his right
hand and seizing a lion's mane with the other. This is
a Phoenician tritemorion. On a double stater of his
third year the Great King is represented standing in his
chariot drawn by three horses, marching to the left.
He wears a cidaris, and holds aloft his right hand. His
charioteer holds the reins. Behind the chariot there
follows an official on foot, wearing a low tiara. In his
left hand he holds an oinochoe,. and in .his; right a

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sceptre with an animal's head upon it. These coins
were doubtless issued, as M. Babelon says, during the
four years 362-358, when Tennes remained loyal to the
Great King.

The destruction of Sidon was only temporary, and it
must soon have risen again from its ashes. The next
step in its history was recovered by the ingenuity of
M. Babelon. Diodorus tells us that Evagoras II., having
been nominated for a short time to a command in
Cyprus, was presently transferred to another in Asia, and
M. Babelon has shown that this was no other than the
government of Sidon, for we meet with coins which bear
the two first letters of the name of Evagoras in their Phoe-
nician form, O O = v, as we find them on his Cyprian
issue. They are marked, like other Sidonian coins, with
the years of his reign, and inasmuch as we only meet
with them during three years, this confirms the state-
ment of Diodorus that he did not hold his post very
long. If, as Babelon suggests, we allow a year for the
time during which Sidon was in ruins, we may take it
that he continued to reign until four years after the
death of Tennes, when he was probably expelled or
deprived of his satrapy, and the Sidonians reverted to
their old royal line in the person of Strato II., whose
coins prove that he deemed himself a dependant of the
Great King.

Let us now turn to another series of coins which
M. Babelon attributes to Sidon, but I think on doubtful
grounds. Let us begin with the oldest. Of these, a re-
markable specimen in the British Museum, obtained from
Mr. T. K. Kich in 1863, is of the weight of 422-8 grains,
and represents a coin of 6 sigloi. On the reverse, in an
incuse square, the Persian king is being driven by a

COINAGE OF ARTAXERXES III. 35

charioteer in a three-horsed chariot. There is no figure
behind the chariot, as on other coins of the series, nor is
there any letter or mark on it. Above the chariot is an
incuse representation of the head of an ibex facing. On
the other side is a galley with sails and moving to the
left ; underneath is a conventional representation of the
sea. The incuse representation is a very curious one. It
seems to me to be distinctly a countermark, and we will
return to it presently. A second example of this coin
is figured by Imhoof-Blumer (Choix, etc., pi. vii., 229).

Other coins of the same series, and doubtless of the
same period, are of smaller dimensions. First, on the
sigloi, or half-staters, we have on the obverse a figure of
the Great King standing and drawing his bow to the full,
while on the reverse is a sailing galley similar to that on
the coins last mentioned. Of these sigloi, one in the
Vienna collection is not countermarked. It is figured
by Babelon (op. cit. clxxxiii.). On the specimens in the
British Museum and the French collection, which weigh
104 '9 grains, we have two countermarks, also incuse.
One is the horn of an ibex, while the other, according to
Babelon, who figures the French coin, is a full face
of the god Besa (see his Cat., no. 1563, pi. xxix.,
fig. 19). The coin in the British Museum was bought in
1856 from Mr. T. K. Lynch, who obtained it in Persia.

Thirdly, we have some smaller coins, namely, sixths
of staters or tritemorions, represented both in the
French collection and the British Museum. On the
obverse is a figure of the King half kneeling and
drawing his bow, in an incuse square, while a similar
galley is on the other side.

This series of coins has a very early look. The incuse
square and the general rudeness of the coins, the im-

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pressions being struck on rough pieces of silver, seem to
me to make it impossible to attribute them to a later
date than the first part of the fifth century B.C., nor do I
think they were issued by any of the Phoenician towns.
They seem to me to be Imperial Persian coins struck for
the purpose of paying the Phoenician fleets in the
Persian wars of the fifth century, and may well belong to
the reign of Xerxes and the time of the battle of the
Eurymedon in 465 B.C. The countermarks on them
support this view. The goat's or ibex's head seems to
recall the coins of Salamis. The only reason for attri-
buting the series to Sidon is the presence of the galley
on them, but the galley does not occur on the autonomous
coins of Sidon of this early date, while it does occur on
those of Aradus and Grebal, and is really a generic repre-
sentation of the fleet ; nor can I believe for a moment
that these coins were struck so late as 390 B.C.

Let us now turn to another series of similar coins.
These also for the most part are anepigraphic, and they
have been attributed to Sidon, as it seems to me very
arbitrarily, by M. Babelon.

They consist of quadruple sigloi, sigloi and trite-
morions, and are apparently a continuation of the former
series, and are also Imperial and not merely local coins,
and were probably struck to pay the Phoenician fleet.

On the quadruple sigloi we have on the reverse the
Great King standing in his chariot holding up his right
hand. The chariot is drawn by two horses only, and the
design is in an incuse roundel. On the other side is a
representation of a rowing galley with one row of rowers,
anchored at the foot of a fortress which is crenellated and
armed with five towers. As the galley is at anchor its
sails are naturally down. Below this are represented two

COINAGE OF ARTAXERXES III. 37

lions walking away from each other and standing back
to back.

As in the other series there is an incuse countermark ;
on these coins it is underneath the feet of the horses
attached to the chariot. According to Babelon it repre-
sents a dead ibex (Hist. Num., page 671, figure 353).

Let us now turn to Cyprus. On the submission of
the Phoenician towns, their example was followed by the
revolted cities of Cyprus, except Salamis, which was
bravely defended by its king Pnytagoras and which was
besieged by Evagoras and Phokion. Evagoras appa-
rently obtained for a short while the supreme rule in
Cyprus, always excepting Salamis. The king of the
latter, Pnytagoras, it would appear, accused Evagoras of
misconduct and made his peace with Artaxerxes, who
granted him his kingdom of Salamis, while Evagoras
was appointed to rule a great province in Asia. Accused
of misgovernment, he fled once again to Cyprus, where
he was captured and put to death (Diodorus, lib. xvi.,
43-46).

This is the account which Diodorus gives us about the
latter part of the reign of Evagoras, and it is singularly
confirmed by his coins. Of these perhaps the most
interesting are a series of which a number were found,
as Babelon tells us, in a hoard not many years ago at
Calymna, in the island of Khodes, with coins of the
Carian princes Maussolos, Idrieus and Pixodaros.
Hence and because they are of Rhodian weight, M. Six
argued that they had been struck in Caria. This view is
contested by M. Babelon. He argues that other coins of
Ehodian weight were certainly issued in Cyprus. The
fact that they have Phoanician letters upon them seems
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in Cyprus, while their weight, as M. Babelon argues, is
probably due to the fact that they were meant to pay the
Greek mercenaries from Asia Minor who were led by the
Carian chief Idrieus. The types of these coins are quite
different from the contemporary Carian coins, while the
symbols on them are Cyprian. Of these we know the
lion's head, the dove, the eagle, the head of Hercules and
lastly the dolphin, which is found on the coins of Nicocles
(Babelon, Les Perses Achem., cxxiv. and cxxv.). All this,
however, is consistent with the fact that though not meant
to be current in Caria, they were possibly struck there
for the special purpose of paying the mercenaries. These
coins were no doubt issued in Cyprus by Evagoras when
he was representing the Great King there as a kind of
satrap. On the obverse we have a representation of
Artaxerxes Ochus half kneeling to the right and drawing
his bow. His cidaris is finished off at the top with three
points. He wears the candys and carries a quiver full of
arrows on his back. On the reverse we have what is
doubtless meant to be a representation of Evagoras him-
self riding a horse at the gallop and using his lance,
which he holds aloft in his right hand. His head is
covered with the Persian tiara and his robe is girdled at
the waist. Above the horse is the letter O, the initial of
Evagoras. On one type of these tetradrachms the first
two letters of the name Evagoras occur. In addition to
these tetradrachms M. Babelon describes some obols,
two of which he figures. These have a bust of Aphrodite
turned to the left on the obverse. She wears a crenellated
diadem on her head and also has earrings. On the
reverse is a bust full-face in a Persian tiara with flaps
covering the cheeks and fastened on the chin as in the
horseman on the tetradrachms. There are no letters on

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these obols, but it is hardly possible to attribute them to
any one else than Evagoras, who alone of the rulers of
this dynasty would be represented wearing a Persian
head-dress.

The issue of these coins was doubtless limited to the
short time only when Evagoras remained in Cyprus and
before he was made governor of Sidon, as I have already
described.

On the withdrawal of Evagoras, Pnytagoras continued
to rule at Salamis, and was reigning there in the time of
Alexander the Great and took service with him. We have
numbers of his coins, but they are not immediately
interesting to us here, for they contain no trace of any
kind of the domination of the Persian King at Salamis.
It would seem, in fact, that the Persians with their Greek
allies never took the place, and that Evagoras only con-
trolled the other parts of the island. There are no
Phoenician or Cypriote letters on these coins, but the
inscriptions, like the types, are purely Greek. The
Phoenician settlements in Cyprus were doubtless subject,
except when in revolt, to the satrap of Syria and
Phoenicia, but I know of no evidence that he controlled
the Greek towns there, and the notion that Cyprus was
subject to the Great King must be accepted with a large
reservation. Diodoms calls Pnytagoras Protagoras, and
M. Babelon has made separate persons of the two,
making Protagoras the father of Pnytagoras and the
son of Evagoras L, but for this there is no authority of
any kind, it seems to me, and the whole thing is easily
explained as a natural mistake of Diodorus, to whom
Pnytagoras must have been a very unfamiliar name.

As we have seen, Belesys, satrap of Syria, and Mazaios,
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towns, pending the arrival of Ochus in person, but they
did not command a sufficient force, and Tennes, King of
Sidon, defeated them and compelled them to abandon
Phoenicia (Diodorus, xvi. 8). This, according to Diodorus,
took place in 351 B.C. M. Six points out that at this time,
as in the time of Darius, the fifth satrapy comprised all
the country from Posidion as far as Egypt Coslesyria,
PhcBnicia, Palestine, Northern Arabia and Cyprus (Hero-
dotus, iii. 91 ; Xenophon's Anabasis, vii. 8, 25). The
North of Syria, on the other hand, formed part of his
fourth satrapy of Cilicia, but was afterwards detached, and
it was there that Belesys, called Satrap of Syria and
Assyria by Xenophon, was living in 401. He was probably
the same man as the Belesys of 351 (see Xen. i. 4, 10 ;
vii. 8, 25), for it is remarkable how long-lived the
satraps as a rule were. If so he must now have been
a very old man. Mazaios, according to Judeich, became
Satrap of Cilicia in the same year as Artaxerxes Ochus
mounted the throne, having succeeded Datames there.

After the unsuccessful struggle against the Phoenician
towns we hear no more of Belesys. It may be that from
the initial letter on the coins attributed by Babelon to
Bagoas they were issued by Belesys to pay his forces on
the occasion of his war against the revolted towns, or on
previous occasions. He may have perished in this war
or died soon after, for presently we find his satrapy
united to that of Mazaios, who is styled on some of his
coins Satrap of " Abarnahra and Cilicia." By Abarnahra,
" beyond the river," is no doubt, as Halevy showed, meant
the country west of the Euphrates i.e. Ccelesyria. On
the disappearance of Evagoras, who had been governor
of Sidon, as we have seen, it would seem that Mazaios
became the dominant overlord on behalf of the Great King,

COINAGE OF ARTAXERXES III. 41

both of the Phoenician towns on the mainland and probably
also of the Phoenician settlements in Cyprus. This we
gather from his coins, for unfortunately our information
about him is otherwise very scanty.

In a previous paper I have excluded certain coins from
the list of those generally attributed to Mazaios, and have
attributed them to a later time. Let us now turn to the
jest. These, it seems to me, may be arranged in several
series to illustrate the different events in his life.

First, I would name what I deem to have been his
original, initial coinage, i.e. the coins he issued as satrap
of Cilicia before the Western campaign of Artaxerxes.
On these coins we have on the obverse the figure of a god,
with the inscription Baaltars round it, and on the reverse
a well-modelled " lion passant " to the left, with the
name of Mazaios in Aramaic letters.

In some cases (see Babelon, op. cit., pi. vi., figs. 18
and 19) the lion has the sun above him and the cres-
cent below his feet. I cannot help thinking that this
is the badge and emblem of the Persian Empire, as it
still is of the kingdom of Persia.

This type of the god and the lion walking to the
left occurs, as we have seen, on later coins, probably
struck by the successors of Mazaios before the time of
Alexander, and it is the only type of his they used, which
seems to me to be strong evidence that it was the real
original type, while the others were accidental ones.

The others, in fact, were employed rather to com-
memorate particular events, and even, perhaps, struck to
pay the wages of the fleet or the soldiery on particular
occasions.

Keverting to the typical series above described, I would
say a few words about the god represented on them.

42 NUMISMATIC CHEONICLE.

I find in the numismatic memoirs known to me, and
notably in that most excellent book, Mr. Hill's Catalogue
of the Coins of Cilicia, that Baal is treated as a personal
name of a god. As a matter of fact it is merely an
appellative. There were many Baalim. Baal, like its
Babylonian form Bel, merely meant Lord, or The Lord,
and it would be better to speak of " The Baal " rather
than of " Baal," as if he were some special god with a
special name.

I venture to question, in fact, the identification of the
figure of the god on the coins of Tarsus on which the
word Baaltars occurs as the god of Tarsus. TJie great
god of Tarsus, as Dio Chrysostom tells us, was Hercules,
that is, Sandan or Melkart, who is represented on some
coins of the city. This god, who has either a bunch of
grapes or an eagle in his hand, has nothing to do with
Melkart.

Again the various memoirs I have read about the coins of
Cilicia treat the word Baaltars, which occurs on the coins
of Tarsus, as the name of a god. I do not think this is
quite certain. The form of the name does not suggest
this conclusion. It seems to me that if we follow analo-
gies, it is rather the name of a place, and not of a god,
and in every probability that it is the name by which
Tarsus itself was known to the Aramaic-speaking people
who lived there. I would compare with it such place-
names as the following, all occurring in Syria, Palestine,
or Phoenicia, districts neighbouring on Cilicia, and whose
people spoke a closely cognate language : Baal Judah,
Baal Gad, Baal Hamon, Baal Hazor, Baal Meon, Baal
Peor, Baal Perazim, Baal Shalisha, Baal Tamar, Baal
Zebub (which has been shown to be a place-name, and
not to mean " god of flies " as generally supposed), and

COINAGE OF AETAXEKXES III. 43

Baal Zephon. In these cases the names, whatever their
explanation, are not personal but geographical.

A more important analogy for my purpose may be
drawn from some of the coins of Gazur, the capital of
Cappadocia, on which it is called Baal Gazur, or Baal
Gazer (see Babelon, Eois Achem., Ixxxiii.). The god
on these coins is precisely the same as that called Baaltars
on some of the coins of Tarsus, and shows that each name
is only an appellative. It has not, I think, been noticed
that while on one side of these coins of Baal Gazur the
representation of the griffin killing the stag is an echo
of the lion killing the stag on some of the coins of
Mazaios, on the other the god is represented with the
eagle, which was the form adopted on the coins I have
ventured to attribute to Byblus. On these coins the
inscription, as I have said, instead of being Baaltars, is
Baal Gazer or Baal Gazur. They have another pecu-
liarity, namely, that some of them present both Aramaic
and Greek letters.

Let us now turn to the coins with the reverse
of the lion killing the stag. As Six and Hill have
pointed out, the reverse of all these coins, which
is entirely new in Asia Minor, is directly taken
from that of the coins of Citium in Cyprus, where
it was an old one going back to the time of Azbaal,
who reigned from 449 to 425 B.C. In addition to this
we also have an explanation of the shallow incuse square,
which had been abandoned at Tarsus but retained
in Cyprus (Hill, Cat. of Cilicia, cxxxii.). I may notice
another very interesting fact, that the crux ansata which
occurs on some of these coins is a very common symbol
on the Cyprian coins, and forms in fact the actual reverse
of many coins of Salamis (Babelon, xvi.).

44 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

The letter O which occurs on some of these coins
ought assuredly to be placed in comparison with the same
letter on the coins of true Persian types issued in
Cyprus by Artaxerxes Ochus (see Babelon, pi. xvii.,
Nos. 14 and 15). It is simply the initial letter of the
name Evagoras II. of Salamis. The M on some of them
may represent the initial of Marium, in Cyprus. The
ram's head is surely taken from the ordinary type of the
coins of Salamis (see Babelon, pi. xvi.).

This series of facts makes it plain that the coins just
described were meant to be circulated not at Tarsus, with
which they have little or nothing to do, but in Cyprus,
and especially in Citium, and they typify the domination
of the Persian King there, and probably the fact, as
Mr. Hill says, that Cyprus or a portion of it was then
subject to the Cilician satrap. Why they should be
treated as coins of Tarsus or be catalogued among the
coins of Cilicia I do not know.

It seems to me that they were struck in Cyprus, as is
evidenced by their incuse square, and by the fact that
they had a type and symbols probably understood only in
Cyprus, and were meant to have currency in Cyprus, and
that they are as much coins of Cyprus as the Hanoverian
money of George III. was Hanoverian and not English.

Let us now pass on to another series of the coins of
Mazaios. On these we have a lion devouring a bull
instead of devouring a stag. This Mr. Hill calls the
emblem of Tarsus (I do not know why), and he bases an
argument against Babelon on the fact. Except this
series there is only a single coin of Tarsus known to me
with this type (Brit. Mus. Cat., Cilicia, pi. xxviii. 12), and
its meaning on this coin is very doubtful, since the
reverse, an ear of corn diagonally in a square, is a

COINAGE OF AKTAXEKXES III. 45

unique one. The type on the obverse, on the other hand,
is that of Byblos in Phoenicia, which was probably the
head-quarters of the satraps Mazaios and Belesys when
they went there to put down the revolt of the district.
After the war Phoenicia was joined to the satrapy of Ma-
zaios, and we may be sure that, as in Cyprus, he struck a
local coinage in Phoenicia. In Cyprus he took the type in
vogue at Citium. In Phoenicia he seerns to have taken
the type in vogue at Byblos. This type occurs in two
forms. In one the lion devouring the bull occupies the
reverse ; in the other this carnasial incident is represented
on the walls of a town or fortress; and it seems to me that
the two types may have a separate meaning. On the ob-
verse of the former class of coins the god is represented
in every case, I believe, with an eagle, and the eagle only
occurs on coins of this type. There is again a double
form of the god associated with the eagle. In certain
coins, of which Babelon describes one (i.e. No. 226, pi. v.,
12), the god is represented in profile as on the coins from
Cyprus above mentioned. Of this type two staters occur
in the British Museum and are figured (Cat. of Cilicia, pi.
xxv., 10 and 11). In another type the god is represented
facing ; of this form Babelon describes eleven coins
and Mr. Hill six. There are minor differences only.
All these coins were apparently struck at Byblos to
be used in Phoenicia ; on some of them, the letters q>^
occur in the field, or these letters reversed. These
letters have been supposed by Babelon to represent
Mallus, but surely they may as well represent Marathus.
The fact that the letters are Aramaic is no bar, for we
know that Mazaios also struck octodrachms of an entirely
different type at Sidon, with inscriptions in Aramaic and
not Phoenician letters (Hist. Num. 672).

46 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

These latter coins are interesting because they enable
us to date the reign of Mazaios with greater precision.
As I showed in a previous paper, distaters with the
name of Mazaios occur with the numbers 1, 2 and 3 on
them, and M. Babelon has treated them as if these refer
to the regnal years of Ochus. This I think is impossible.
M. Six has rightly treated them as the first, second and
third year of Ochus' successor Arses ; the hiatus between
the years 3 and 19 (which M. Babelon allows), might have
warned him against the improbability of his conclusion.
The evidence of the coins, then, is that Mazaios was
satrap of Syria from the nineteenth or twentieth year of
Ochus to the third of Arses, i.e. from 339 or 340 B.C. to
334 B.C.

H. H. HOWORTH.

II.

THE COINAGE OF WILLIAM WOOD, 1722-1733.

(See Plates I.-II.)

CHAPTER I.

BRIEF LIFE OF WILLIAM WOOD.

IT is unfortunately a matter of considerable difficulty to
write anything approaching a full or connected account
of the life and work of William Wood, owing to the in-
sufficient data left to us. This may very naturally give
rise to some little surprise when one considers the no
small part that Wood played in public affairs during the
later years of the reign of George I.

William Wood appears to have been born July 31,
1671, and during the period 1692-1713 he resided at
the Deanery, Wolverhampton.

He must, prior to his venture in the numismatic field,
have been a person of very considerable financial stand-
ing, since we are informed that he was the owner of
copper and iron mines in the west of England, and is
understood to have leased mining rights, in some thirty-
nine English and Welsh counties ; and when we re-
member his ability to pay 10,000 for his patent, very
different must we picture him, in comparison with the
sorry figure presented to our imagination by Swift and
other writers of the same school.

Early in 1722 the Duchess of Kendal, the King's
mistress, received from the Earl of Sunderland a patent
for coming copper money for Ireland, which she appears

48 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

to have sold to William Wood for the sum of 10,000,
the details of which coinage appear in the indenture
which George I. commanded to be drawn up between
himself and Wood.

This indenture, which was issued June 16, 1722, pre-
sented the following points. The patent was for the
period of fourteen years, for the sole privilege of coining
halfpence and farthings for Ireland, the total weight of
which was not to exceed three hundred and sixty tons,
thirty pence being coined from one pound avoirdupois.
During the first year one hundred tons were to be
coined, and twenty tons during each of the succeeding
thirteen years. Wood was to pay during each year the
sum of 800, the reserved rent to the King, and 200 to
the clerk comptroller. This patent was passed July 22,
1722, by the English Commons, without reference to the
Irish Privy Council or the Lord Lieutenant.

The value of the total weight of copper, viz., 360 tons,
at this period amounted to the sum of 43,680, and if
coined at the rate of thirty pence to the pound, it would
have produced the sum of 108,000.

I subjoin the total cost of coining 360 tons of copper
at this period in tabular form.

Value of 360 tons of copper at 13d. per Ib. 43,680

Converting into bars at 6d. per Ib. . 16,800

Cost of coining at 4dL per Ib. . 13,940

Rent to the Crown, etc. . . . 14,000

Purchase of patent .... 10^000

98,420

At the Eoyal mint at this time one pound of copper was
coined into forty-six halfpence, and consequently 360 tons
would produce about 77,280, in other words about 30,720
less than the patent for the Irish coinage provided for.

THE COINAGE OF WILLIAM WOOD.

From the above table it will be apparent that, had
Wood carried out the provisions of the patent strictly,
his profits would, in the course of fourteen years, have
amounted to the miserable sum of 9,580, a profit
scarcely commensurate with the labour involved.

As a result of this, it will occasion no surprise to learn,
that in order to make the affair yield a reasonable return,
the weight of the coins was cut down, as will be apparent
from the table below, which gives the weights of speci-
mens selected from parcels sent to Ireland, for issue
there, a number being taken from each parcel weighed
and divided into lots.

The different lots.

Weight of
Halfpenny.

Number
Integer.

in 1 Ib.
Dec.

Curreu
Pence.

fc value, 1
Half-

722, in
Dec.

grs.

First sort

120

Second sort

111

Third sort

103

Fourth sort

The average

107-5

Quantity
coined.

Cost
coined.

Current value.

Loss to Public.

If as patent provided
If first sort coined
If second sort coined
If third sort coined
If fourth sort coined

tons.

360

5>
?
>
J

74420
i

i
>

108,000
97,994 8
105,940 16
114,172 16
122,488 16

33,580

23,574 8
31,520 16
39,752 16
48,068 16

If average coined

360

74,420

110,149 4

35,729 4

VOL. III., SERIES IV.

50 NUMISMATIC CHKONICLE.

In January, 1722-23, the striking of these Irish pieces
began, the place of issue or mint being in Phoenix
Street, Brown's Gardens, Seven Dials ; whence they were
conveyed by waggon to Bristol, where they were shipped
to various ports in Ireland, Dublin being of course the
principal centre for their distribution.

August, 1722. In the Treasury Papers appears a
memorial of William Wood for a license to coin " copper
money for Ireland at the city of Bristol." On August
3rd, a Treasury minute is to be found, ordering a consti-
tution appointing Sir Isaac Newton comptroller of the
coinage, when the Treasury will give Wood powers to
coin a certain quantity of copper money at Bristol.

August 31st. Treasury warrant authorising Wood to
establish his office for coining at or near Bristol (Hist.
MSS. Com., Appendix to 8th Eeport, p. 79).

The dies for this issue were in all probability engraved
by the same artists who prepared those for the American
coinage, at least this is certainly the case in respect to
the obverse dies.

Pieces of the dates 1722 and 1723 were struck and
issued in Ireland to the sum of 14,566, of which 1,086
was issued in farthings. The coins of the year 1722 do
not appear to have had any large circulation and were
in all probability only issued as patterns.

Wood's coinage for Ireland never appears to have been
popular, and this may in no small measure have been
due to the secrecy attending its issue. Since the Irish
nation had never been consulted in this matter, and their
interests but little regarded, it is not surprising to find,
September 13, 1723, both Irish Houses of Parliament
petitioning the King in regard to this subject, in which
petition they were joined by the Lords Justices, the

THE COINAGE OF WILLIAM WOOD. 51

Council, and the Grand Juries of the city and county of
Dublin.

Wood was at this period described " as guilty of most
notorious fraud in his coinage," and foolishly allowed
himself to be drawn into a very unwise reply, which
appeared in The Flying Post, Oct. 8, 1723. Now there
is no doubt that Wood, firm in his belief as to the omni-
potence of Walpole, expressed his views as to the Irish
in language more forcible than elegant, since among
other remarks he is reported to have said " that he would
cram his brass down their throats in spite of them."

Shortly after this appeared the first of a series of seven
letters, the author of which was Jonathan Swift, D.D.,
Dean of St. Patrick's, and since they were signed M. B.
Drapier, became known as Drapier's Letters and were
supposed to have been written by a drapier or draper
resident in Dublin. The first letter made its appearance
April, 1724, and produced a tremendous sensation, being
followed at short intervals by the others. Swift placing
all regard for the truth on one side, and aiming solely at
the aggrandisement of himself, and if fortunate at the
overthrow of his old enemy, Walpole, found all the
means for such an end ready to hand. Here was an
opportunity not to be missed, and, emerging from his
comparative obscurity, he availed himself of it with
readiness, and in a few homely but at the same time
telling words, poured out the imagined wrongs of his
country.

By such means as this was the prospect of a successful
future for this coinage done away with, and although
Wood in 1724 consented to reduce the amount of his
issue to one of 40,000, and limit the tender to fivepence
halfpenny, yet in the following year, 1725, we find him

E 2

52 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

consenting to resign his patent in consideration of his
receiving a pension of 3,000 per annum, for eight years,
on the establishment of Ireland.

On April 10, 1724, a letter from the Treasury to Sir
Isaac Newton occurs, directing him to send a competent
person to Bristol, where Mr. Wood had his office, to assay
the fineness of his halfpence.

Notwithstanding the outcry raised against these pieces,
the report of Sir Isaac Newton, the then Master of the
Eoyal Mint, amply proves them to have been in many
respects very admirable coins, and vastly superior to any
copper money previously coined for use in Ireland, their
only fault being the discrepancies in weight between
individual specimens.

The following advertisement will serve to show the
contemporary feeling in regard to these Irish pieces.

ADVERTISEMENT.

"Whereas I, Thomas Handy, of Meath Street, Dublin, did
receive by the last packet from a person in London, to whom
I am an entire stranger, bills of lading for eleven casks of
Wood's halfpence, shipped at Bristol, and consigned to me by
the said person on his own proper account, of which I had
not the least notice until I received the said bills of lading.

" Now I, the said Thomas Handy, being highly sensible of
the duty and regard which every honest man owes to his
country and to his fellow-subjects, do hereby declare, that I
will not be concerned, directly or indirectly, in entering,
landing, importing, receiving, or uttering any of the said
Wood's halfpence, for that I am fully conceived, as well
from the addresses of both houses of parliament as otherwise,
that the importing and uttering the said halfpence will be
destructive to this nation, and prejudicial to his Majesty's
revenue.

'* And of this my resolution I gave notice by letter to the
person who sent me the bills of lading, the very day I
received them, and have sent back the said bills to him.

"Tno. HANDY.

"DUBLIN, 2Mh Aug., 1724."

THE COINAGE OF WILLIAM WOOD. 53

On July 12th, 1722, Wood also obtained a patent to
issue coins for the North American Colonies, or, as they
were then called, " The Plantations," for a term of four-
teen years. The amount to be coined was not to exceed
300 tons, of which 200 tons were to be coined in the first
four years and not more than ten tons per annum during
the last ten. For this right of coinage Wood was to pay
an annual rent to the Crown of 100 and to the clerk
comptroller 200. The material for the coinage of these
American pieces was a mixture called Bath metal, the
composition of which, in twenty ounces of metal, was as
follows :

Silver .... 1 dwt.
Tutanaigne ... 4 ozs. 19 dwts.
Brass . . . .15 ozs.

Of this sixteen ounces were to be coined into thirty
twopenny pieces, sixty pence, or one hundred and twenty
halfpence. This series of coins for America, best known
by the name of the "Kosa Americanas," was issued
during the years 1722-1724; the dies being engraved
by the following artists Mr. Lammas, Mr. Harold, and
Mr. Standbroke, who were probably also the engravers
for the Irish issues. Together with William Wood there
appear to have been associated in this venture one
Kingsmills Eyres, Esq., and a Mr. Marsland of Cornhill,
a hardwareman, which latter person it is related had a
cellar full of these coins, and since the difficulty of
passing them appears to have been as great as was the
case with the Irish series, it may be no surprise to learn
that Mr. Marsland was ruined thereby and subsequently
died an inmate of Gresham College.

Some of the dies for the American coinage were taken

54 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

to New York by Mr. Winthorpe, when he emigrated
thither.

The American coins were struck at the French
Change, Hogg Lane, Seven Dials, and also at Bristol,
and were made of Bath metal, the composition of which
we have previously alluded to. The blanks were heated
before being struck by the die, which was raised to a
considerable height and then released, and this fact may
in some measure account for the numerous examples
which appear to be blistered as though by the action of
fire. No doubt the unusual composition of the metal of
which these coins were struck accounts for but few
examples having reached us in fine condition, the
softness of Bath metal being but little calculated to
withstand the ravages of time and circulation. In regard
to the difficulty of passing this issue, the following letter
dated October 29th, 1725, to the Governor of New
Hampshire, is of interest.

Whitehall 29* Ocf 1725.

"Sir

His Majesty having been pleased to grant to Mr. William
Wood his Letters Patents for the Coyning of Halfpence,
Pence and Two Pences of the Value of Money of Great
Britain for the Use of His Maj ty ' 8 Dominions in America,
which said Coyn is to receive such additional Value as shall
be reasonable and agreeable to the customary allowance of
Exchange in the several parts of those His Maj ty ' 8 Dominions,
as you will see more at large by a Copy of the Patent, which
will be laid before you by the person, that delivers this
Letter to you ; I am to signify to you His Maj ty>s pleasure,
that, in pursuance of a Clause in the said Patent by which
all His Maj ty ' 8 Officers are to be aiding and assisting to Mr.
Wood in the due Execution of what is therein directed and
in the legal Exercise of the several Powers and Enjoyment
of the Privileges and Advantages thereby granted to him,
you give him all due Encouragement and Assistance, and
that you and all such other of His Maj ty ' 8 Officers there,
whom it may concern, do readily perform all legal Acts, that

THE COINAGE OF WILLIAM WOOD. 55

may be requisite for that purpose ; This I am particularly
to recommend to your Care ; and to desire your Protection
to Mr. Wood and to those he shall employ to transact this
affair in the Provinces under your Government. I am

Sir

Your most humble Servant

HOLLES NEWCASTLE.
" Gov r of the Massachusetts Bay
and New Hampshire."

On January 14th, 1723, the following notice appears
in The London Post. "William Wood, of Wolver-
hampton, Esq., having a patent for fourteen years, for
coining farthings and halfpence for Ireland, and half-
pence, pence, and twopences for all His Majesty's
dominions in America, hath erected a building in
Phoanix Street, Brown's Gardens, near the Seven Dials,
for the American coinage, and another in the city of
Bristol for the Irish coinage."

On January 18th appears in the same journal the
further information, which also occurs in the St. James's
Journal on January 19th. " Wood began his coinage
for Ireland on Monday last near the Seven Dials. In
about a week's time he will begin to coin at Bristol
pieces for America, which will be made of a beautiful
compound metal."

Though the Irish patent was surrendered in 1725, this
does not appear to have been the case with that for the
American issue, and confirmation of this may be found in
the issue of a pattern piece dated 1733, which, though
subsequent to Wood's decease, was in all probability the
work of his successors to the privileges of the patent.

William Wood only enjoyed his Irish pension for five
years, as he died in London, August 2nd, 1730. He was
married to Mary Molyneaux, of Witton Hall, Stafford-
shire.

56 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Wood and his successors were in all probability the
minters of the various issues and patterns for the Isle of
Man, 1723-1733 ; and though we have no documentary
evidence to adduce in support of this theory, yet I think
we are justified in holding this view, both on account of
these pieces appearing at the same time as his other
coinages and also on account of their very similar design
and execution. 1

Interesting among other details preserved to us is the
fact that Wood was the first to manufacture iron with
pit coal, which up to this period had been refined with
wood ; and hence he appears to have been the pioneer in
an industry whose far-reaching results have revolutionised
the world's trade. It is not improbable that the steel
impressions from the obverse die of the Kosa Americana
twopence of 1733 were issued to show the excellence of
the metal prepared by the use of coal.

The selection by Wood of Bristol as his place of mint-
age was no doubt owing to the fact that at this period,
1723, that city was the centre of the English brass trade
and was possessed of the largest copper smelting works in
the kingdom. One may recognise as brass the " beautiful
compound metal " mentioned by The London Post.

CHAPTER II.

COINAGE FOR IRELAND.

WITHOUT giving at this point the patent for the Irish
coinage, which will be found in brief in the previous
section, we will proceed at once to the description and

1 See Num. Chron., 1899, p. 35.

THE COINAGE OF WILLIAM WOOD. 57

discussion of the various patterns and coins issued by
Wood for use in Ireland. The first coin I shall describe
is that known as the " Kock halfpenny," bearing the
legends GEOKGIVS D : G : KEX HIBEBNL3E
1722 ; this title standing quite alone in the English and
Irish series, either before or since this time.

No. 1. HALFPENNY, DATED 1722. (Pattern.)

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right, the neck of
which is disproportionately long. GEOKGIVS
D : G : EEX

Rev. Figure of Hihernia seated front, looking to right
at a mass of rock, and holding in front of her
a harp. HIBEENL3E ; in exergue J722.

Wt. 120 grs. [PL L, 1.]

It is very probable that the engraver of this coin was
also that of the next one, as well as that of the pattern
farthing and halfpenny of 1724, with the seated figure of
Hibernia. I judge the next piece to appear was the
pattern farthing of 1722, and after this the corresponding
halfpenny, with Hibernia playing on the harp.

No. 2. FARTHING, DATED 1722. (Pattern.)

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEOKGIUS -
D : G : EEX

Rev. Hibernia seated to left, holding a harp before her,
on which she plays. - H1BEENIA - J722 .

Wt. 60 grs. [PL L, 8.]

No. 3. HALFPENNY, DATED 1722. (Pattern.)

Obv. GEOEGIUS DEI - GEATIA EEX . Lau-
reate head of George I to right.

58 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Rev. Hibernia seated to left holding a harp before her,
on which she plays. - HIBERNIA . J722 -

Proofs occur in copper.
Wt. 132 grs. [PI. L, 2.]

The next coin was no doubt the design which appeared
to give the greatest satisfaction, since, with the omission
of the dot which appears first on the reverse, we find it
repeated in 1723 and 1724. I regard this coin only as a
pattern, both on account of its rarity and also from the
occurrence of a dot before, as well as after, HIBERNIA,
which exists in the other patterns of 1722, but on no
subsequent issue except the pattern halfpenny of 1723.

No. 4. HALFPENNY, DATED 1722. (Pattern.)

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEOEGIUS
DEI GEATIA EEX .

Eev. Hibernia seated with harp at her side, upon which
she rests her left hand, whilst in her right she
holds a palm-branch. HIBEENIA - J722

Proofs occur in silver.
Wt. 112 grs. [PI. L, 2.]

Following this would appear an identical coin, but
bearing the date 1723.

No. 5. HALFPENNY, DATED 1723. (Pattern.)

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEOEGIUS
DEI GEATIA . EEX

Rev. : Seated figure of Hibernia leaning on a harp,
holding a palm-branch in her right hand.
HIBEENIA J723

Proofs in copper and silver.
Wt. 123 grs. [PL L, 2 6bv., 3 rev.]

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The next issue of the year 1723 was a farthing, having
the same obverse as the pattern farthing of the year
1722, with the contracted legend.

No. 6. FARTHING, DATED 1723. (Pattern.)

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS -
D : G : KEX .

Rev. Seated figure of Hibernia leaning on a harp,
holding a palm-branch in her right hand.
HIBEKNIA J723.

Wt. 60 grs. [PI. L, 8 obv., 9 rev.]

This would no doubt be succeeded by the usual type of
farthing with the obverse legend in full, and then at the
same time would be issued the corresponding halfpenny.

No. 7. FARTHING, DATED 1723.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS
DEI GRATIA . REX -

Rev. Seated figure of Hibernia leaning on a harp,
holding a palm-branch in her right hand.
HIBERNIA J723 .

Proofs in silver and copper.
Wt. 64 grs.

No. 8. HALFPENNY, DATED 1723.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS
DEI GRATIA . REX .

Rev. Seated figure of Hibernia leaning on a harp,
holding a palm-branch in her right hand.
HIBERNIA J723 -

Wt. 114 grs. [PI. I., 2 6bv., 4 rev.]

60 NUMISMATIC CHKONICLE.

Subsequent to this, the pattern with the star on the
reverse would appear, but was apparently not accepted
for currency, since we do not find this method of punc-
tuation repeated.

No. 9. HALFPENNY, DATED 1723. (Pattern.)

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS
DEI GEATIA . REX -

jfet;. Seated figure of Hibernia leaning on a harp,
holding a palm-branch in her right hand.
. HIBERNIA & J723 -

Wt. 109 grs. R. I. Academy.

The ordinary issue for 1724, the last year of the
coinage, is exactly the same as for the year 1723.

No. 10. FARTHING, DATED 1724.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS
DEI GRATIA . REX .

Eev. Seated figure of Hibernia leaning on a harp,
holding a palm-branch in her right hand.
HIBERNIA - J724.

Proofs in silver.
Wt. 55 grs. [PI. L, 9.]

No. 11. HALFPENNY, DATED 1724.

Olv Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS
DEI GRATIA . REX

Rev. Seated figure of Hibernia leaning on a harp,
holding a palm-branch in her right hand.
HIBERNIA J724

Wt. 118 grs. [PI. I., 2 dbv., 4 rev.]

Of the year 1724 we also find several patterns as
follows :

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No. 12. FARTHING, DATED 1724. (Pattern.)

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEOEGIUS
D : GEA KEX

Rev. Seated figure of Hibernia to left, leaning on a
harp, holding in her right hand a palm-branch ;
the date in exergue. HIBEENIA . 1724

Hoblyn Coll. A proof of this exists in silver.

Wt. 79 grs. [PI. I., 10 obv., 11 rev.]

No. 13. HALFPENNY, DATED 1724. (Pattern.)

Obv. Fine laureate head of George I to right, with
flowing hair curling beneath the prominent
truncation of neck. GEOEGIUS - DEI
GEATIA EEX .

Rev. Seated figure of Hibernia to left leaning on a
harp, holding in her right hand a palm-branch ;
date in exergue HIBEENIA - 1724

Proofs in copper and bell metal.
Wt. 130 grs. [PL L, 6 obv., 5 rev.]

Then would follow the next two pieces :

No. 14. FARTHING, DATED 1724. (Pattern.)

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right, with flowing
hair curling beneath the prominent truncation
of the neck. GEOEGIUS - D : GEA . EEX

Rev. Trident and sceptre crossed and united by a
triple knot, around which is EEGIT UNITS
* UTEOQUE 1724.

Proofs in copper.
Wt. 79 grs. B. M. [PL I., 10.]

No. 15. HALFPENNY, DATED 1724. (Pattern.)

Obv. Fine laureate head of George I to right, with
flowing hair curling beneath the prominent
truncation of the neck. GEOEGIUS DEI .
GEATIA EEX -

62 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Rev A. trident and sceptre joined by a knot, around
which is EEG1T YNYS * VTEOQYE
1724 *

Proofe exist in copper.
Wt. 135 grs. [PL L, 6.]

It seems probable that the design of the last two coins
described was copied from the following medalet of
Charles I, struck in silver, the engraver of which was
Nicolas Briot.

No. 16.

Obv. Shield of Britain, crowned, within the collar and
badge of the Order of the Thistle all within
the Garter. CAROLYS - D : G - ANG
SCO FRAN ET HIB REX FIDEI
DEF.

Rev. Trident and sceptre crossed and united by a
triple knot around which is REGIT* &
YNYS * YTROQYE ; in exergue, 1628.

Wt. 80 grs. [PL L, 12.]

We find a mule composed of the reverses of the two
pattern farthings of 1724.

No. 17. FARTHING, DATED 1724. (Pattern.)

Obv. Hibernia seated to left, leaning on a harp,
holding in her right hand a palm-branch.
HIBERNIA - ; in exergue, 1724.

Rev. Trident and sceptre crossed and united by a
triple knot, around which is REGIT * UNITS
* UTROQUE 1724

Montagu Coll.
Wt. 76 grs. [PI. I., 10 rev., 11 rev.]

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No. 18. HALFPENNY? No DATE. (Pattern in Bath Metal.)

Obv. Fine laureate head of George I to i ight, as on
No. 14. GEOEGIUS DEI . GKA.

Rev. Emblematic female figure seated to left, holding
in her outstretched right hand a large orb;
her left arm supports a spear and rests upon a
shield which bears the rose and shamrock.

Hoblyn and Caldecott Colls.

Wt. 76 grs. [PI- I-, 7.]'

Snelling, in his Supplement to Simon's Coinage of
Ireland, p. 6, describes a halfpenny in which Hibernia
points to a sun in the upper part of the field.

CHAPTEK III.

COINAGE FOB THE AMEKICAN COLONIES.

" Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci."

Hor., Ars P., 343.

THE patent for this coinage and also the letter to the
Governor of New Hampshire, in reference to this series,
have already been given. The obverse dies were in all
probability engraved by the same artists as those for the
Irish series, if indeed the dies of both are not identical.
I shall now, as in the case of the Irish coinage, endeavour
to describe the various pieces, as far as I am able, in the
approximate order of their appearance.

These coins are of three denominations, viz., twopenny
pieces, pence, and halfpence, although in size they would
correspond at this period, in England, to coins of but
half these values.

As in the previous section we traced a connection
between the design of one of the Irish coins to a piece

64 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

of Charles I, so now I think we may in like manner
observe the prototype of the Eosa Americana issue.

It appears to me that 1 we have, in the following pattern
piece of silver of the reign of Elizabeth, the original from
whence is derived the design for the American coinage.

No. 1. PENNY, WITHOUT DATE. (Pattern.)

Obv. A crowned rose within a circle, around which
.-. KOSA - SINE - SPINA .-.

Rev. A shield bearing the cross of St. George m.m.
cross; around, PKO o LEGE o KEGE o
ET o GEEGE.

Wt. 26 grs. [PI. I., 13.]

In the first issue for America we find the rose alone, in
the second the rose and crown, whilst in the coin de-
scribed under No. 19 we have the rose only and the
legend KOSA : SINE : SPINA in full. In all pro-
bability the first piece struck was a twopenny piece
without date and without a label, and on account of its
great rarity it may be a pattern.

No. 2. TWOPENCE, WITHOUT DATE. (Pattern.)

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEOEGI VS
D : G : MAG : BEI : FEA : ET : HIB :
EEX.

Rev. Large seeded rose, above which is EOSA
AMEE10ANA . and beneath . UTILE
DULCI

Wt. 121 grs. [PL II., 1.]

This coin was followed by a piece almost identical, but
of rather better execution, in which the words UTILE
DULCI are on a label.

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No. 3. TWOPENCE, WITHOUT DATE.

Obv. Laureate bust of George I to right. GEOEGIVS
D : G : MAG : BEI : ERA : ET - HIB :
EEX.

.Re,._Seeded rose, above which is EOSA - AMEEI-
CANA, and beneath UTILE - DULCI on a
label.

Wt. 243 grs. [PI. II., 2 olv., 3 rev.]

Then would be issued a penny bearing the date 1722
which in the use of V in place of U, both on the obverse
and reverse, appears to me to have been struck before
the other pence of the same date.

No. 4. PENNY, DATED 1722.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEOEGIVS
DEI GEATIA - EEX -

Eev. Seeded rose, around which is EOSA AMEEI-
CANA * VTILE - DVLCI . J722

Wt. 115 grs. [PI. I., 2 obv.]

[PL II., 5 rev.]

Following the last piece, and exactly similar as regards
the reverse, we find :

No. 5. PENNY, DATED 1722.

Obv. Laureate head of G eorge I to right. GEOEGIVS
DEI . GEATIA - EEX -

Eev. Seeded rose, around which is EOSA AMEEI-
CANA * VTILE . DVLCI J722 *

Wt. 116 grs. [PI. I., 2 obv.]

[PI. II., 5 rev.]

Together with a halfpenny, though the reverse reading
is somewhat contracted.

VOL. III., SERIES IV. F

66 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

No. 6. HALFPENNY, DATED 1722.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEOKGIUS
DEI . GEATIA - EEX

fi ev . Seeded rose, around which is EOSA AMEEI :
YTILE DVLCI - J722.

Wt. 64 grs. [PL IL, 7.]

A very similar coin, a halfpenny, exists, with the
legends of both obverse and reverse contracted.

No. 7. HALFPENNY, DATED 1722.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEOEGIUS
D : G : EEX.

.Ret;. Seeded rose, around which is EOSA AMEEI :
UTILE DULCI - J722.

Wt. 62 grs. [PI. IL, 6.]

The succeeding five coins would probably appear in
the order in which they are placed here.

No. 8. TWOPENCE, DATED 1722.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEOEGIUS
D : G : MAG : BEI : TEA : ET : HIB :
EEX -

Rev. Seeded rose, above which is EOSA AMEEI-
CANA . J722 ; and beneath UTILE
DULCI on a label.

Wt. 213 grs. [PI. IL, 3 obv., 2 rev.]

No. 9. PENNY, DATED 1722.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEOEGIUS
DEI . GEATIA . EEX -

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Llev. Seeded rose, around which is ROSA AMERI-
CANA UTILE - DULCI , J722 *

Wt. 122 grs. [PL I., 2 060.]

[PI. II., 4 rev.]

No. 10. PENNY, DATED 1722.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS
DEI GRATIA . REX.

Rev. Seeded rose, around which is ROSA AMERI-
CANA UTILE DULCI - J722 *

Wt. 127 grs.

[PI. I., 2 olv.]
[PI. II., 4 rev.'

No. 11. HALFPENNY, DATED 1722.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS *
DEI . GRATIA . REX.

Rev. Seeded rose, around which is ROSA AMERI-
CANA UTILE . DULCI - J722

Wt. 70 grs. [PL II., 9 dbv., 8 rev.]

No. 12. PENNY, DATED 1722.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS
DEI GRATIA . REX.

Rev. Seeded rose, around which is ROSA AMERI-
CANA UTILE DULCI - J722 .

Wt. 125 grs. [PL I., 2 obo.]

[PL II., 4 rev.]

In the following year, 1723, it was evidently the
intention to repeat the design of 1722, merely changing
the date. Of this evidence is shown in the pattern
halfpenny next described.

F 2

68 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

No. 13. HALFPENNY, DATED 1723. (Pattern.)

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS
DEI . GRATIA - BEX.

R eVm Seeded rose, around which is ROSA AMERI-
CANA UTILE . DULCI - J723 *

Wt. 62 grs. [PL II., 9 obv., 8 ret?.]

This issue was evidently abandoned in favour of the
more handsome coins bearing the rose surmounted by a
crown. The issue consists of pieces of three denomina-
tions, viz., twopence, penny, and halfpenny.

No. 14. TWOPENCE, DATED 1723.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS
D : G : MAG : BRI : ERA : ET HIB .
REX.

Rev. Seeded rose beneath a crown, above which is
ROSA AMERICANA J723; below on a
label, UTILE . DULCI.

Wt. 240 grs.

No. 15. PENNY, DATED 1723.

Obv. Head of George I to right. GEORGIUS - DEI -
GRATIA REX.

Rev. Seeded rose beneath a crown, above which is
ROSA . AMERICANA J723; below on a
label, UTILE . DULCI.

Wt. 128 grs.

No. 16. HALFPENNY, DATED 1723.

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEORGIUS
DEI GRATIA . REX.

Rev.- Seeded rose beneath a crown, above which is
ROSA - AMERICANA . J723 ; below on a
label, UTILE . DULCI.

Wt. 66 grs. [PI. II., 9.]

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No. 17. TWOPENCE, DATED 1724. (Pattern.)

Obv. Fine laureate bust of George I to right, with hair
curling beneath the truncation. GEOEGIUS
D : G - MA . B - FEA . ET . HIB -
EEX -

Rev. Seeded rose beneath a crown, above which is
EOS A AMEEICANA . J724; below, on a
label, UTILE - DULCI

Wt. 200 grs. [PL II., 10.]

Of this magnificent specimen of medallic art only three
examples are known, the one from which this description
is taken being in the collection of Mr. J. B. Caldecott.

Of the year 1724 a penny exists very similar to that
of 1723.

No. 18. PENNY, DATED 1724. (Pattern.)

Obv. Laureate head of George I to right. GEOEGIUS -
DEI GEATIA . EEX.

Rev. Seeded rose beneath a crown; above, EOSA -
AMEEICANA : J724; beneath, on a label,
UTILE DULCI -

Wt. 120 grs.

Probably after this was struck a coin which, notwith-
standing the fact that it is undated, must be of the same
year, since the obverse is the same as that of the Irish
pattern halfpenny of the same date.

No. 19. PENNY, UNDATED (1724? Pattern.)

Obv. Fine laureate bust of George I to right, with
flowing hair curling beneath the prominent
truncation of the neck. GEOEGIUS DEI
GEATIA EEX

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Rev. A leafy sprig, bearing three roses and two rose
buds, springing from the ground. KOSA :
SINE : SPINA-

Wt. 120 grs.

Of this coin only three specimens are known.

William Wood died in 1730, as previously mentioned,
and hence the coin described below was in all probability
issued by his successors to the patent for the coinage of
money for the American colonies. There remain to us
only three examples of this coin.

No. 20. TWOPENCE, DATED 1733.

(Pattern.)
GEORGIVS

Obv. Laureate head of George II to left.
II D - G KEX.

Rev. A branch bearing a full-blown rose, a bud, and
seven leaves, all beneath a crown ; above which
is EOSA AMERICANA J733; and be-
neath, on a label, UTILE - DULCI.

Wt. 290 grs. B. M.

[PL II., 11.]

There exist some six examples of the obverse of this
coin struck in steel, one being in the author's cabinet ;
and on the reverse of another is engraved Hawkins,
Janry. 1737. PHILIP NELSON.

III.

COINAGE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.
(See Plate III.)

In the arrangement of the various Indian coins, issued
during the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth
centuries, great difficulties present themselves in
distinguishing between

(1.) The Moghul issues struck in the name of the

Emperor.

(2.) The local coinages of the Petty States which
attained to semi-independence during the decay
of the Moghul Empire; which coins frequently
bear the name of the Emperor, Shah-'Alam,
although struck after his death, and,
(3.) The purely imitative issues of the East India
Company, designedly struck to pass as though
they formed part of the Moghul coinage.
There can be little doubt that the system of classifica-
tion adopted by Prof. Stanley Lane-Poole in his catalogue
of the coins of the Moghul Emperors, in placing the
purely imitative section of the East India Company's
coinage in the same series with the Moghul issues, is the
true arrangement, and one that must commend itself to
all who are collectors of Mohammedan coins. In the
case, however, of the arrangement of a collection of the
various coinages issued under British rule and such

72 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

collections are becoming more and more frequent now
that an ever-increasing interest is manifested in all that
belongs to the British Empire it becomes necessary
to adopt some line of demarcation between the purely
native issues of Indian princes, and such of the coinage
as may be truly said to fall within the control of the
East India Company.

This paper claims to deal with this period of over-
lapping, and to show the means of distinguishing between
the East India Company's imitations, and the issues of
the Moghuls and the Native Princes. For this reason
no reference is made to the coins issued in India with
European legends or devices, or to the Imperial currency
instituted by the Company in 1835.

The problem of determining when the native coinage
ends and the Company's begins is still beset with
difficulties, but the solution has been greatly facilitated
by Prof. Stanley Lane-Poole's masterly summary of the
History of the coinage of the Moghuls, which accompanies
his catalogue of the coins published in 1892. Mr. Edgar
Thurston has also issued a series of notes on the Kecords
of the Calcutta and Madras Mints, which further help to
clear up obscure points in the history of the coinage of
the East India Company.

Prof. Stanley Lane-Poole has pointed out that the
coinage may be seen to fall within three periods :

(1.) The period of Prohibition, when the Company had
to send its bullion to be coined at the Moghul
Mints.

(2.) The period of Concession, when the Company
obtained limited rights of coining :

In Bengal, authorised and executed in 1758 (1171

A.H.).

COINAGE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. 73

In Bombay, authorised in 1716 (1129 A.H.), executed
in 1719 (1131 A.H.).

In Madras, authorised in 1742 (1154 A.M.), executed
about 1758 (1172 A.H.).

(3.) The period of Administration, when the Company
practically took over the administration and the
charge of the Coinage of the Moghul Empire,
1765 (1178 A.H.).

All coins struck under the first of these three periods
must clearly be classified under the Moghul issues.

Under the second period the classification is simplified
by the fact of there being only three mints to be considered.

In Bengal Calcutta. The name of this place does
not appear as a mint under the Moghul series;
the first coin issued bears the Hijrah date 1171
(1757 A.D.) the year the Company were authorised
to establish a mint : all coins with the name of
this mint must therefore belong to the Company.

In Bombay. The earliest coins bearing the name
Munbai appear to have been issued in the Hijrah
year 1131 (1719 A.D.), the first year of the reign of
Muhammad Shah ; all coins, therefore, giving the
name of this mint can safely be attributed to
the Company.

In Madras. Authority was given both to the British
at Madras and to the French at Pondicherry to
copy the Arkat rupee. There is, however, little
difficulty in distinguishing between the three
issues ; coins of the city of Arkat itself have no
distinguishing mark. The French coins were
nearly all struck in the name of Shah-'Alam, with
varying regnal years, and have a crescent as the
mint mark.

74 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

The British coins all bear the name of the

Emperor 'Alamgir II., and the sixth year of his

reign, with the addition of the " trisul " as a mint

mark. All coins, therefore, giving the name of

this mint, with the regnal year T and the mint

mark Y, belong to the Company.

Under the third period, which commences with the

administration of the Company in Bengal 1765 (1178

A.H.), when the rule of the Emperor Shah-'Alani was

purely nominal, it is difficult to make any distinction

between :

(1.) The coins issued in his name by provincial

governors.
(2.) Those issued at mints under native control under

the authority of the Company.
(3.) Coins struck at the Company's own mints.
The only method is to draw a hard-and-fast line at the
date when the Company took over the administration of
the district in which the mint was situated, and to
attribute all coins after such date to the Company.
Fortunately the difficulty is limited to coins issued in
Bengal bearing the mint names Murshidabad and
Benares ; and even with these mints it is possible to give
some distinguishing characteristics, which enable a dis-
tinction to be drawn between the Company's and the
Moghul issues.

This will be more fully explained under the sub-
sections referring to these mints.

In Bombay, the English, who had virtually owned the
City of Surat since 1759, took the decided step of
abolishing the authority of the native Nawab in 1800
(1215 A.H.), the 43rd year of the nominal reign of Shah-
'Alam. All coins of Surat bearing an earlier Hijrah

COINAGE OP THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. 75

date than 1215, or a regnal date prior to 43, must be
considered as forming part of the Moghul coinage. The
Company's coins nearly all have the regnal date 46, the
fabric arid style of the early coins being entirely native.

In Madras, the coinage continued to be issued in
native style until 1815, when a milled coinage, also
bearing the mint name Arkat, was introduced. There
are also a few silver coins bearing the mint name
Masulipatan.

To return to the Bengal coinage :

Calcutta. The Calcutta mint records given by Mr.
Edgar Thurston note the establishment of a mint at this
place in 1758 (1171 A.H.). This date is confirmed by
coin No. 1. With the exception of the few recorded
coins of the first period, this mint appears to have been
subsequently employed exclusively in striking coins for
the province of Bengal, under the various mint names of
Murshidabad, Benares, and Ferrukhabad ; and for Madras
under the name of Arkat ; hence the name of Calcutta
disappears after a few years from the Company's issues.

Murshidabad. This place had been a Moghul mint for
many years when in 1765 (1178 A.H.), in the fifth regnal
year of Shah-'Alam, the British took over the administra-
tion of the district, together with the right of coinage.
There is little doubt but that the Nawab of Bengal
continued to strike coins at his own mint at Murshidabad
side by side with the Company's coins, which bore the
same mint name, but were probably struck at Calcutta.
The result is that for some years coins of native fabric
appear side by side with others struck in a collar in
European style, all bearing the mint name Murshidabad.

In the native style it is impossible to say whether the
coins were actually struck by the Nawab or by the

76 NUMISMATIC CHEONICLE.

Company, but, as the Province was then under the control
of the East India Company, it seems reasonable to place
all the coins with the mint Murshidabad after the
Hijrah date 1177, or with a higher regnal year than six
of the nominal reign of Shah-'Alam, under the British
series. All with earlier dates would naturally fall to the
Moghul issues.

Fortunately there is a further distinction than that of
date to be drawn between the late Moghul issues, and
the continuation of the same series under the Company's
rule ; it is in the fact that for the first/time the latter
bear on the reverse the " cinquefoil ' a mint mark
apparently instituted at Calcutta and adopted at Murshi-
dabad when the Company took over the mint with the
administration of the district. The presence, therefore,
of this mint mark on a coin bearing the Murshidabad
mint name, can be taken as evidence that the coin
should be classed in the British series.

Benares. Mr. Edgar Thurston, in his historical sketch
of this mint, established in the reign of Muhammad Shah
(1734), records that in 1776 (1191 A.H.), in the 17th
year of Shah-'Alam, the mint was placed by the East
India Company in the hands of Chait-Singh, who engaged
to continue the die of the 17th regnal year to avoid
confusion. "All rupees, therefore," the record states,
" coined in the Benares mint, and current in the district,
may be classed as Sanwat and Sikka, the former coined
under the Moghul princes and the latter since the 17th
year of the reign of Shah-'Alam, when the mint was
ceded to the Company by the Vizier, and by them
transferred to Chait-Singh." This clearly gives the date
1776 (1191 A.H.) when the Company's issue may be
said to commence, and shows that the long series bearing

COINAGE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. 77

the nominal regnal year 17, as well as the real regnal
year, were issued under British control (See Nos. 101 to
112).

From the time the Company took over the adminis-
tration of the district (1776) until 1811, when the
new coinage with a milled edge was instituted, there
were two distinct types of native style, bearing the mint
name of Benares, struck concurrently ; the former begin
the continuation of the existing issue of the Moghuls, at
the time the mint was taken over, with mint marks, Flag
and Fish, but having as a distinction the fixed regnal
date 26 ; the latter being the issue with the nominal
regnal date 17 before referred to, and having a four-
petalled flower and an improved form of fish as the
distinguishing mint marks. Hence it will be seen that
it is comparatively easy to make a division between the
Moghul and Company's coinage at this period, as
follows :

(1.) Moghul, Hijrah dates before 1191, varying regnal

years.

(2.) Company's issue, in continuation of this series
Hijrah, dates after 1190, and always a fixed regnal
year 26, Flag and Fish mint marks.
(3.) Company's new type, having, in addition to
Hijrah dates and regnal years, a fixed regnal
date 17. Four-petalled flower and improved fish
as mint marks.

When the Company decided in 1811 to issue the new
coinage with the milled edge, this last type was selected
as the one to be copied, so that the new coin (European
style) is an exact reproduction of the native style coin,
even to the perpetuation of the double regnal years ^.

78 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Ferrukhabad. This mint was also established in the
reign of Muhammad Shah. The records published by
Mr. Edgar Thurston show that the Company commenced
to strike coins here in 1803 (1218), and that they adopted
the 45th regnal year of the nominal reign of Shah-'Alam
as the standard date for their coinage. Consequently
all native style coins before the 45th regnal year should
be classed amongst the Moghul issue. In 1805 a milled
coinage was recommended, but does not appear to have
been fully adopted until 1807.

The subsequent issues of the East India Company can
easily be distinguished from the Moghul coinages, as the
Company adopted the European style of collar, ring, or
milled edges.

The Bengal coins continued to bear the mint names of
Murshidabad, Ferrukhabad and Benares.

The Bombay coins that of Surat.

The Madras coins that of Arkat.

J. M. C. JOHNSTON.

N.B. In the following list coins marked B, followed by
a number, are represented in the British Museum
Catalogue of Coins of the Moghul Emperors. Coins
marked M are represented in my own collection.

COINS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

CALCUTTA.

(a) In the name of 'Alamgir II.
Issue of Regnal years 4 and 5. A.H. 1171 (1759).

Rupee
1171

. [, ,

1 1 < 1

J U &*>

&A$3^ ^

[Pi. in.]

J Rupee
1171

Same: showing part only
of the inscription.

Same : showing part only
of the inscription.

Regnal year \

| Rupee
2 Annas

[PL III.]

M
M

Anna

The distinguishing mark of this issue is on the
obverse m.m. sun : on the reverse m.m. cinquefoil.

(b) In the name of Shah-Alam.
Issue of Regnal year 4. A.H. 1176 (1763).

Rupee
1176

ItX^ ..J^ , v
^

Same as No. 1, but regnal
year f

jj eoLu>

X -uj

1 1 < 1

Mint marks as in previous issue.

B67

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

CALCUTTA (continued).

4Pais

-j i OO

x\ ( ' < < ^

(J^O-^o

lloo

&JUA> 1 1

( * * r

( *r*j^

B 150

4Pais

Same : but A A

B152

1188

2Pais

Same : but 1 1 A A

Same: but JO \,J (?)

B153

1188

MURSHIDABAD.

In the name of Shah- Alam.
(a) Native style : m.m. sun and cinquefoil.

Mohr
1181

) * '>

CUUi-

B1185

Rupee
1179

Regnal year 7

^^x

Same : but <

J\j

.J\P iL2i> Js^ .

KXMl

>UA>

1 1 < ^

^ cl^^ Jj

Rupee
1180

Regnal year 7

Same : but II A

Same.

Rupee

Regnal year 8

Same.

Same : but A

B1188

COINS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

MURSHIDABAD (continued).

2 Annas

Regnal year 9

Part only of above ;
no Hijrah date.

Part only of
above, with ^

B1196

Rupee
1184

Regnal year 11

Same as No. 11 ;
but 1 1 A

Same as No. 11;
but 1 1

B1189

Rupee
1186

Regnal year 12

Same: but MAI

Same; but 1 r

B1190

| Rupee

j> )>

Same : part only
visible; no Hijrah
date.

Same: part
only visible.

Anna

Regnal year 15

Same : part only
visible ; no Hijrah
date.

Same ; but 1 a
part only
visible.

B1197

Rupee
1192

Regnal year 19

Same as No. 11; but

IMP

Same as No. 11;

but 1 1
[PI. III.]

Rupee

Same ; but no Hijrah
date.

Same.

B1193

Rupee

Same.

Same.
[PL III.]

| Rupee

" " "

Same; part only
visible.

Same; part
only visible.
[PL III.]

2 Annas

5J J>

[PL III.]

B 1198A

Anna

Same; part
only visible.
[PL III.]

B1198

} Rupee

Regnal year 25

Same as No. ISA.

Same as No. 18;

Rupee

Regnal year 28

European style
Early issues

) Struck in a col

but PC
Same : but P A

stated.
I rims.

B1194
B1195

m.m. cinquefoil unless
between 1765 and 1793.

lar ; no milling; dottec

JMohr
1182

Regnal year 10

Same as No. 11 ; but
date MAT

Same as No. 11;
but 1 .

VOL. III., SERIES IV. G

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
MURSHIDABAD (continued).

1182

Regnal year 10

Same as No. 11; but
date MAT

Same as No. 11;

but 1

1183 P

99 99 >9

MAT

1 .

No cinquefoil.

^ Mohr
1183

99 99 99

99 99

A Rupee
1182

99 99 99

Obv. and rev. same
as No. 25.

[PL III.]

J Rupee
1182

99 99 99

Obv. and rev. same
as No. 26.

2 Annas
1182

99 99 99

Obv. and rev. same as
No. 27; but 1 1 Ar

2 Annas
1183

99 99 99

Obv. and rev. same
as No. 27.

[PL III.]

Anna
1182

99 99 J9

Obv. and rev. same as
No. 28; but 1 1 AI-

Anna
1183

99 99 99

Obv. and rev. same
as No. 28.

Mohr
1184

Regnal year 11

Same as No. 25 ; but
date 1 1 AH 1

Same as No. 25;
but 1 1

Rupee
1183

99 99

Same; but 1 1 AT

Rupee
1182

99 99 >9

Same; but I I At 6

J Rupee
1184

99 99 9>

I Rupee

99 99 >9

Same; noHijrahdate.

2 Annas

J9 99 J9

Same ; part only
visible.

Same ; part
only visible.

Anna

>9 99 9)

COINS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

MURSHIDABAD (continued).

Mohr
1185

Regnal year 12

Same as No. 25; but
date II AO

Same as No. 25;
but I r

Kupee
1185

Regnal year 13

Same ; but 1 1**
[PL III.]

Mohr
1187

Regnal year 15

Same ; but 1 1 A <

Same ; but 1 a

Mohr
1196

Regnal year 19

Same ; but Mil

Same ; but 1 1

Mohr
1197

Same ; but 1 M v

Mohr
1198

Same ; but IMA

47A

Mohr
1199

Same ; but 1 M 1

Mohr
1201

Same ; but 1 1 r ,

JMohr
1202

Same ; but 1 r r

JMohr
1202

> J>

Same as No. 27 ; but

t r .r
No cinquefoil.

Same as No. 27;
but I 1

T V Mohr
T 1202

fcMohr
1203

J> >

Same ; but 1 r r

^Mohr
1203

(II) Struck in a collar, with milled rims or milled edges.

Kupee
1198

Regnal year 26

Same as No. 25; but

II 4 A

Same as No. 25;

lint I- 1

Round the edge of this coin :

UNITED * EAST * INDIA * COMPANY * 1784 *

G 2

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
MURSHIDABAD (continued).

55 M 2 Annas Regnal year 26
1198

IMA

&JU*> V 1

No cinquefoil.
[PL III.]

Issue of the Old 19-Saw SiTekah, 1793-1818.
Oblique milling ; m.m. cinquefoil.-

Mohr
1202

^JV

^^JiiuHU

1 *

*******

,u r

B29

Mohr
1202

B31

iMohr
1204

1 1

&SsjM>

-X

B33

Rupee
1202

Obverse and reverse same as No. 56.

B35

Rupee
1202

55 55 55 5> 55 55 55

In this rupee the milling extends some distance
over the edge on to the face of the coin.

B36

Rupee

Same as No. 59 : but without Hijrah date.

B37

Rupee

" " 55 55 55 55 55

B39

| Rupee
1204

Same as No. 58.

Nos. 61-63 formed the silver currency during the
years 1793-1818.

B41

COINS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

MUKSHIDABAD (continued).

Issue of the New W-San Sikkah, 1818-1832.
Straight milling, m.m. cinque/oil.

Mohr

Same as No. 61.

JMohr

Same as No. 62.

1 Mohr

Same as No. 63.

Rupee

Same as No. 61.

))

i Kupee

Same as No. 62.

5 Kupee

Same as No. 63.

Rupee

Like No. 67, but smaller flan ; may be distinguished
by the coarser milling, and by a small five-pointed
star below 4} \j on the obverse.

Rupee

Like No. 67, but smaller flan and a dotted rim
round the edges.

Rupee

Like No. 68, but smaller flan and serrated rim, a
small crescent on upper part of reverse.

| Rupee

Like No. 69, but smaller flan and serrated rim, a
small crescent on the obverse.

Nos. 67-69 form the common issue for this period
(1818-1832).

Latest issue of the 19-San Sikkah, 1832-1835.
Plain edge and serrated rim ; m.m. cinquefoil.

Rupee

Same as No. 61.

| Rupee

Same as No. 62.

| Rupee

Same as No. 63.
The Rupee has a small five-pointed star on the
obverse below &\)

The Half-Rupee has a small crescent on the
part of the reverse.

upper

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

77 M

Rupee

Kupee

FARRUKHABAD.

In the name of Shah-'Alam.

Issue of the old 45-San Sikkah, 1803-1819.

Oblique milling ; m.m. cinquefoil.

Obverse same as No. 61.

Reverse.

A variety of the preceding, with a broader margin
and with the oblique milling in the opposite direction.

The half and quarter rupees of this issue, although
authorized, do not appear to have been prepared.

B50

Rupee
| Rupee
J Rupee

Rupee

Issue of the new 45-San Sikkah, 1819-1833.
Straight milling ; m.m, cinquefoil.

Same as No. 77 ; small A under &\

I r .t*
aU

below W

Like No. 79, but differs in having a broader margin,
in the absence of the A under j ; also having a
small crescent on the reverse.

B51
M

Rupee

Latest issue of the 45-&m Sikkah, 1833-1835.
Plain edge and plain rim; m.m. cinquefoil.

Same as No. 77.

Same as No. 77 ; small crescent on the reverse.

B52
B53

COINS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

FARRUKHABAD (continued).

| Rupee

Same as No. 81 ; small crescent on the obverse.

B54

Rupee

Like No. 77, but broader margin, and with a small

crescent on the reverse.

BENARES.

(a) Native style, with regnal year 26 ; m.m. flag and fish.

Rupee
1204

Regnal
year 26

^b^cX-^

^ j-i

^u2^

Rupee
1207

Regnal year 5

/ "* ,. .

Aj^jjJ ^^^ A Pii^ ^

Same

Same; but 1 r

88A

Rupee
1212

1 M r

B57

Mohr
1214

1 M f

B55

89A

Rupee
1214

' "

Rupee
1215

' 1MB

B58

90A

Rupee
1215

1 f

Rupee
1216

1 M 1

[PL III.]

91A

Rupee
1219

1 M ^

Same

Rupee
1221

B59

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
BENAEES (continued).

Eupee
1222
Eupee
1226

Eegnal year 26

> 55 55

Same ; but 1 f f r
55 im

Same.

B60
B61

Eupee
1227

55 55 55

55 55

B62

Eupee
1229

55 55 55

55 55 1 r 1 "

B63

Eupee
1231

55 55 55

I rn

B64

97A

Eupee
1232

55 55 1 I*!"!*

1 Eupee
1232

55 55 J5

" " "'-'

Eupee
1233

55 55 5)

55 55 i f rr

B65

100

Mohr
1235

55 55 55

1 fro

B56

(b) Native style, with fixed regnal year 17 : m.m. four-petaled flower and fish.

101

Eupee
1196

Eegnal year J|

Same as No. 87; Hij-
rah date 1 1 ) 1

Same as No. 87,
but -~
[PI. III.]

102

Eupee
1203

" " SO

Same, but 1 r * r

Same, but -

B1143

103

| Eupee
[1203]

55 55

Same, but no Hijrah
date.

B1144

104

Eupee
1207

Same, but I f . <

1 <

1 ro

B1145

105

Mohr
1209

, ,,**

I r 1

,5 ^<

B1142

105 A

Eupee
1212

& I r i r

1 <

" rl

106

Eupee
121 [3]

i r i [

i <

" " C~|

B1147

COINS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

BENAEES (continued).

107

Rupee
1217

Regnal year !

Same; but 1 r 1 v

Same, but

108

Kupee
1222

?> 5^

IP Pi*

1 <

109

Rupee
1224

> j

>> > 1 P P^*

110

Rupee
1225

- - lrro

111

| Rupee
1225

112

Rupee
1229

>> ??

1 i

113

Rupee
1229

Regnal year H

Same as No. 112.

114

Rupee
1229

Same, without dia-
critical points.

[PL III.]

115

5 Rupee
1229

i rr i

KI-1

ftXui

[PL III.]

The fact of Nos. 114 and 115 being without dia-
critical points would appear to show they are proofs.
It is doubtful if the half and quarter Rupee were
issued for circulation.

(d) European style. Copper coins.

116

2Pais
1221

r^ ^>

I r r i ( t j^^s ^j**.lx^

117

1221

118

2 Pals

1228

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
BENAKES (continued).

B182

119

2 Pais
1195

120

Pai
1195

121

Pai
1195

122

1195

123

1195

124

Pai

125

2 Pais

BENGAL PROVINCE (COPPER).
In name of Shah-'Alam. No mint.

Regnal year 22

Regnal year 37

I I 1 C JV>
5 stars.

2 stars only.
5 stars.

Same, without the
trisul.

2 stars.

Nagari
inscription.

COINS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

BENGAL PROVINCE (COPPER) (continued).

Pai

Regnal year 37

Same as No. 124,
without the trisul.

&XwJ

Nagari
inscription.

B170

Pai

Bengali
inscription.

Nagari
inscription.

B171

Pai

(milled rim).

B174

JPai

Same ; but

&XM L$\J .>.-*

B175

Pai

Regnal year 45

Same as No. 124;
but F<5

B176

Pai

Regnal year 45

Same ; but with
star instead of trisul
on the obverse.

B178

Pai

Same as No. 127;
but Fc

B180

M J Rupee
1131

BOMBAY (MUNBAI).

(a) In the name of the Shah (Muhammad).
Native style ; m.m. L? on obverse.

Regnal year 1

I 1 ri

B68

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
BOMBAY (MUNBAI) (continued).

134

Eupee

Eegnal year 3

Same as No. 133;
no Hijrah date.

Same as
No. 133; but
regnal year r.
[PI. III.]

135

| Eupee

Eegnal year 9

Same; but 1

136

\ Eupee
1143

Eegnal year

Same; but 1 Fr

Same; but l[

137

138

(b) In the name of Muhammad Sliah. Native style.

Eupee

Eupee
1148

Eegnal year 7

Eegnal year 18

Same ; but 1 1 F A

Same as
No. 133 ; but
regnal year /

Same; but 1

139

Mohr

Eegnal year 9

^jJlP HA[

Same as
No. 133 ; but
regnal year 1

\\& SWitiw

,Ux) c\X-ui

140

| Eupee

1188

Same ; but 1 1 A A

141

Eupee

Same; no Hijrah date.

COINS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

142

BOMBAY (MUNBAI) (continued).

(II) Struck in a collar ; m.m. inverted crescent over \j. on obverse.
Star on LJ** on reverse.

Rupee* Regnal year 1

&XM>

The imperfection in the letters on these Kupees
is very marked; the engraver must have been quite
ignorant of t lie Persian characters. The issue appears
to be a first attempt to strike coins for Bombay in
European style.

B79

SURAT.

In the name of Sliali- Alam.^
(a) Native style ; issue of 1802 ; m.m. crowned head and star.

143 AT Panchia
(5 Rupees)

Only a small portion of inscription showing :
Obv. , Rev.

On reverse : 1 802 ; incuse on an oval label. B 81

(b) Native style; issue of 1825 ; 46 san; m.m. crown and star.
144 AT Mohr

,Ux>

B82

* The records of the Calcutta mint, published by Mr. ^hurston, do not confirm the statement
in Atkin's Coins of British Possessions, 1889, that these rupees were struck at Calcutta for
Bombay in 1800.

t The Rupee, attributed to Munbai-Surat in the Brit. Mus. Cat. (No. 80), is a native coin of
Mysore, and does not therefore form part of the East India Company's series.

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

145
146

147
148

Panchia
(5 Eupees)

Eupee

Kupee
Eupee

SUE AT (continued).
Same as No. 144. ; only partly legible.

Same as No. 144, with, in addition on the reverse,
1825, incuse on raised label.

Same ; only partly legible.

149

Mohr

150

Panchia

151

Eupee

152

yli

Eupee

153

Eupee

154

| Eupee

155

2 Annas

156

Anna

Same as No. 144.

Same as No. 144 ; only partly legible.

Same as No. 149.

Same as No. 149 ; only partly legible.

[PI. III.]

[PL TIL]

(II) With further m.m. ; instead of ^

157

Mohr

Same as No. 149.

158

Panchia

150.

159

Eupee

151.

160

Eupee

,, ,, 152.

161

J Eupee

153.

162

J Eupee

154.

163

2 Annas

155.

164

Anna

156.

[PI. III.]

COINS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

SUEAT (continued}.

(d) European style, 46 San issues, 1215 A.H.
(I) Straight milling : line round rim : m.m. star.

Mohr*

Eupee*

I r

B96

(II) PZcw'n e<7gre, serrated rim : m.m. dbv. }!{ rev. star.

Mohr

Eupee

Same as No. 165.
, 166.

B98

B99

B100

AEKAT (MADEAS).

In the name of 'Alamgir II.
(a) Native style ; regnal year 6 ; m.m. trisul

Eupee

(Portions only of the above
appear.)

[PL III.]

B101
M

* Although there is a reference to * and i Mohrs and to i and i Rupees of this issue in
Atkin's Coins of British Possessions, I doubt if such coins exist. The Calcutta mint records
show that in 1821 the divisions of the Bombay Mohr (180 grs.) were the Panchia (60 grs.) and the
gold Rupee (12 grs.).

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

ARKAT (MADRAS) (continued).

173

Rupee

Same as No. 171.

174

2 Annas

Part only legible.

[PL III.]

175

Anna

Part only legible.

(b) European style ; regnal year 6.
(I) Madras issue of 1811 ; oblique milling ; m.m. trisul.

176

Double
Rupee

177

178

Rupee

179

Rupee

180

| Rupee

181

2 Annas

182

Anna

I 1 vr

&x^

Same ; but sj^^ (an error).

These double Rupees are re-struck on Spanish
dollars.

Same as No. 176.

1 I vr

M W

ftXu)

B120

(II) Calcutta issue of 1818 ; straight milling ;
(2 Annas and Anna oblique) ; m.m. rose.

183
184

Rupee

Same as No. 178.
179.

B121
B122

COINS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

AKKAT (MADRAS) (continued).

185

J Rupee

Same as No. 180.

B123

186

2 Annas

M 181.

B125

187

Anna

loZ.

B126

(III) Madras issue of 1833; plain edge iaith indented cord milling in the centre;
m.m. trisul.

188
189
190

Mohr
JMohr
JMohr

Same as No. 176.

B109
B110

180.

191

Rupee

176.

B113

192

Rupee

Hijrah date M v 1

B115

193

J Rupee

5> 5> J>

B117

194

J Rupee

,, 180

B119

195

2 Pais

1200

Regnal year 27

r A
t _j ^Q

'!'

\ \

L -}\\ \

B184

196

2 Pais

1208

Regnal year 35

Same ; but I r . A

t>" V^^
(**>

^^^

AJulf \^\ '

B185

197

2 Pais

12[22]

Regnal year 49

Same ; but Hij-
rah date only
shows 1 f

Same ; but I* 1

B186

198

Pai

JJ 99

B187

VOL. III., SERIES IV.

NUMISMATIC CHKONICLE.

MASULIPATAN.

In the name of 'Alamgir II.
Struck in a collar; m.m. triaul*

199

Double

Regnal year 21

JVP .jj^j\P

^M>Vt

Rupee

L LILiiif

A ;

1194

iUtib 1

-J^^&J^i

13 '

c^iji

B145

200

Rupee

Same ; but 1 M <

Same, without

1197

regnal year.

B146

201

i Rupee

Ml A

BUT

1198

* The two Rupees, Nos. 148 and 149 of the Brit. Mus. Cat., attributed to this mint, are coins of
Mysore struck in the name of Shah-'Alam by the Hindu Raja, with a crescent for a mint mark.

The mint reads

The coins do not form part of the East India Company's series.

MISCELLANEA.

ERRATA in Mr. Crump and Mr. Johnson's " Notes on
* A Numismatic History of the Keign of Henry I.,' by W. J.
Andrew" (Part iv., 1902). Page 372, line 22, to "the full-
face types occur alternately " add " two full-face types being
followed by one profile type " ; p. 374, line 2, for " 14 " read
"18"; line 3, for "7" read "12"; and line 23, after
" Eedvers," for " had " read " was long thought to have
had " ; and p. 375, line 8, for "1130 " read " 1112."

ROMAN COINS FOUND AT SOUTHWARK. The small hoard of
coins here described was shown at the British Museum in
April, 1902. It is said to have been found by a working
engineer, during excavations for the "tube" railway at
South wark, close to the river, 18 feet below the surface, on a
bed of peat moss. The neighbourhood is, of course, well
known for its Roman remains. Of coins of the first two
centuries previously found in or near Borough High Street,
Roach Smith mentions (Archaeologia xxix, pp. 148, 149)
plated denarii of Tiberius, a large brass of Nero ("Decursio"),
a second brass (" Pax Augusti "), denarii of Vespasian, a large
brass of Faustina the Elder, and denarii of Severus.

M. VIPSANIVS AGRIPPA.

(B.C. 27-12.)

[M AGRIPPA L ] F- COS- [III].
Head of Agrippa ]., wearing rostral crown.

9- S C in field. Neptune standing L, dol-
phin in r., 1. resting on trident, mantle
over shoulders.

M 23 mm. (Cohen, p. 175, No. 3.)

Number of
Specimens.

100

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

CLAYDIVS.

(A.D. 41-54.)

2. TI CL AVDI VS C AES AE AVG P * M TK

P IMP Head of Claudius 1. bare.
$. S C in field. Pallas r., hurling javelin
with r., holding shield on 1.

JE 28*5-26-0 mm. A.D. 41.
The obverse legend of these coins is that given
by Cohen (p. 257, No. 83) for the "large brass"
coins of this type. The British Museum possesses
three other " middle brass " coins with the same
legend (29 '5-25 -5 m.m.).

NERO.

(A.D. 54-68.)

3. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER

P M . . . Head of Nero 1. bare.

$. ARAPACIS in exergue; S C in field.
Sacellum of the Ara Pacis.

M2Q-5 mm. (Cohen, p. 280, No. 28.)

4. IMP-NERO-CAESAR-AVG-P'MAX-TR-

P*P*P' Head of Nero r. laureate; below,
small globe.

9. SECVRI TAS-AVGVSTI around; S C
Securitas seated r. ; before

in exergue,
her, altar.

^E (bright yellow) 29 5 mm.
p. 300, No. 324.)

(Cohen,

5. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER-
MANIC VS. Head of Nero r. bare; below,
small globe (?).

$. PONTIF-MAX- TR-POT-IMP-P-P

around ; S C in field. The Emperor r. as
Apollo Citharoedus.

^30-5 mm. (Cohen, p. 295, No. 247.)

Number of
Specimens.

MISCELLANEA.

101

6. NERO -CLAVD- CAESAR -AVG-GER- P-

M-TR-P-IMP-P-P- Head of Nero r.
laureate ; below, small globe.
$. VICTORIA AVGVSTI around; S C in
field. Victory 1. with wreath in r., palm
inl.

M (bright yellow) 28-5 mm. (Cohen,
p. 302, No. 340.)

7. NERO CLAVD CAESAR- AVG-GER- P-

M-TR-P-IMP-P-P- Head of Nero r.
bare ; below, small globe.

^. S C in field. Victory 1., holding shield
inscribed SPQR.

M 28 5 mm. (Cohen, p. 299, No. 292.)

8. IMP-NE RO- CAESAR -AVG-P -MAX- TR-

POT P P Head of Nero r. bare.

$. Similar to No. 7.
M 27-5 mm.

9. IMP- NERO -CAESAR -AVG-P-M AX-TR

P-P-P- Head of Nero r. bare; below,
small globe.

$. Similar to No. 7.

M 30 mm. (Cohen, p. 299, No. 302 )

10. Legend as on No. 9. Head of Nero 1. bare ;
below, small globe.

R. Similar to No. 7.

M 31-5-28-5 mm. (Cohen, p. 299,
No. 303.)

VESPASIAN.
(A.D. 69-79.)

11. IMP CAESAR VESPASIAN AVG
COS JTm. Head of Vespasian r. laureate
below, small globe.

R. AEQ VITAS AVGVSTI around; S C

in field. Aequitas standing 1., holding

balance in r., sceptre in 1.

M 27 mm. A.D. 72 or 73.

Dumber of
pecimens.

102 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

12. Similar to preceding, but apparently no
globe.

R. S C in field. Eagle displayed on globe.
^E 27 -5 mm. A.D. 72 or 73.

G. F. HILL.

COINS FOUND ON THE PREMISES OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY
OF CARPENTERS. I have had an opportunity of inspecting a
number of coins found on the premises of the Worshipful
Company of Carpenters, the greater part of which were
discovered during the excavation of their property at the
corner of London Wall and Throgmorton Avenue preparatory
to the rebuilding of the Company's Hall in or about the year
1872. There is no record of the numbers of separate finds
nor of the exact position in which they were discovered.

There are altogether 68 coins, of which the greater part
are Roman.

It seems possible that the more modern portion of the
collection was never actually buried. It comprises :

A penny of George III., 1797.

Three very worn halfpence of about the same date.

A medalet. Justice and scales.

Three 18th century tokens, viz. :

A Coventry halfpenny, 1799.

A Yarmouth halfpenny, 1790.

A Dodd's halfpenny.
A 15th century French jeton.
A two-sou piece and two sous of Louis XVI.
A 17th century Kuremburg counter.
A half-cent U.S.A., 1800, and
A one-pie sicca of the East India Company.

The Roman pieces are mostly in poor condition and consist
of:

Denarii 7

1st bronze . . . 7

2nd bronze . . . .16
3rd bronze . . . .10
Byzantine bronze ... 9
Undecipherable ... 4

They cover a period of no less than 1300 years and no
doubt comprise several deposits.

MISCELLANEA.

103

Twenty-seven Emperors and Empresses are represented as
follows :

Eoman Emperors.
Name. Coins.

1. Augustus .... 1 2nd Br.

2. Germanicus

3. Nero

4. Vespasian .

5. Domitian

6. Hadrian .

7. Antoninus Pius .

8. Faustina Senior (his wife) .

9. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus .

10. Commodus .

11. Septiniius Sever us

12. Julia Domna

13. Gordianns III. (Pius) .

14. Marcia Otacilia Severa .

15. Victorinus Senior

16. Tetricus Junior .

17. Carausius .

18. Allectus

19. Galerius Maxiiuianus

20. Constantino II.

" Constantinopolis " . .

Byzantine Emperors.

21. Justin II. and Sophia .

22. Heraclius ....

23. Constans II. ...

24. Constantino V. .

25. John I

26. Emanuel I. (Comnenus)

27. Andronicus II. (Paleologus) .
Uncertain

ist
22nd
2 2nd
1 1st

1 Denarius

2 1st Br.
2nd

II Denarius

1 1st Br.

3 Denarii

1 1st Br.

2 3rd Br.

^ j >
>
* > >
1 2nd
33rd

1 Br. Coin

The collection contains several coins of special British
interest.

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

One of the second bronze of Antoninus Pius is of the
" Britannica Cos IIII." type.

Of the seven Denarii five are of the reign of Septimius
Severus who passed his latter years here, and both Carausius
and Allectus are represented each by small bronze.

One of the middle bronzes of Domitian is of the " Moneta
August " type, and the reverse appears to be from the same
die as a similar coin which was found near the Mansion
House Station during the building of the Underground
Eailway.

Perhaps the most interesting portion of the find is the
batch of nine Byzantine coins. They cover a period of more
than seven hundred years, and are evidently a little collection
made in the East and brought here by some traveller. One
or two of them are somewhat rare.

A great authority has suggested that they were the hoard
of some English Crusader, but the late date of the last
emperor represented, Andronicus II., 1282-1328, seems to
me rather to negative this, for Edward I. brought the
English crusading army home in 1272.

It is no doubt possible that there may have been
individual Englishmen engaged until the end of the last
crusade in 1291, but as in the case of the crusades, as so
often since, trade followed the flag, I prefer to believe that
the hoard is that of some old London merchant.

PERCY H. WEBB.

xcaiK.

.X* sfcxi'vs

WOOD'S IRISH COINAGE.

Chr0n> Set: IV. M. JIT ftjff.

w *m^<> ^

COINS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

IV.

THE NUMEKAL LETTEKS ON IMPEKIAL
COINS OF SYEIA.

AMONG the minor unsolved problems of ancient numis-
matics is that suggested by the appearance, during the
second century A.D., of single letters, or pairs of letters,
on the reverses of the coins issued by certain Syrian
cities. For the most part, at least, they are numerals.
What can they have signified ? Eckhel, in his Doctrina,
discusses the question more than once, successfully com-
bating the view that they were meant to indicate the
regnal years of the various emperors. 1 The nearest
approach he makes to any positive conclusion is the
statement that they were "haud dubie notae monetari-
orum" 2 a remark which he elsewhere qualifies by the
cautious " nondum explorato, quod hactenus novimus, earum
sensu." 3 Since these words were written, much fresh
material has accumulated. There is, therefore, good
reason for once more endeavouring to discover the
explanation.

The following list makes no pretence to completeness.

1 D.N.V., iii., pp. 259 f.

2 Ibid., p. 302.

3 Ibid., p. 284.

VOL. III., SERIES IV.

106 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

It has been compiled merely from such sources as
happened to lie ready to hand 4 :

COMMAGENE.

ANTIOCHIA AD EUPHKATEM
M. Aurelius, A.

DOLICHE

M. Aurelius, A, B, A.

M. Aurelius and L. Verus, A, B, l~, A.

Commodus, A.

GEBMANICIA CAESAREA
M. Aurelius, A, A.
L. Verus, A.
Commodus, A, B.

ZEUGMA

Trajan, <5.

Antoninus Pius, A, B, l~, A, s 6, 9, X, H, 9.

M. Aurelius, A, B, l~, A.

L. Verus, A, B, T, A.

Commodus, B.

Septimius Severus, B, I"".

CYKRHESTICA.

BEROEA

Trajan, A, B, I", A, H.
Antoninus Pius, A, B, F.

CYRRHUS

Trajan, A, B.
Antoninus Pius, A, B.
M. Aurelius, A, B, f, A.
L. Verus, A.
Commodus, A, B, P, A.

4 Besides the trays of the Hunter Cabinet, I have consulted B.M.C.
Galatia, etc., Mionnet's Description, Eckhel's Doctrina, Leake's Numism.
Hellen., the official catalogue of the Turin Collection, and the Catalogm
of Ramus. All the examples to be found in any of these are included,
with the exception of three recorded under " Antioch," by Mionnet.
These three are SI, I A, and l<5 (Mionnet, Suppl., viii., Nos. 104, 113,
117), all of which rest on the very doubtful authority of Sestini. In the
case of three of the coins described by Mionnet and of two described by
Leake, I have been able to correct the reading by the aid of casts, which
I owe to the courtesy of M. Babelon and Dr. James. The corrections are
noted in their proper places.

4 This is the correct reading of the coin described in Num. Hellen.,
p. 141, as having II.

THE NUMERAL LETTERS ON SYRIAN COINS. 107
CYRRHESTICA (continued).

HlEROPOLIS

Trajan, A, B, l~, A, , S, H.
Antoninus Pius, A, B, l~, A, 6, ^, Z, H.
M. Aurelras, A, r, , Z, H, 0, I, IA.
L. Verus, A, B, T, A, Z, H, 0, I, IA.
Commodus, A, B, A, H.
Caracalla, A, B.

CHALCIS- CHALCIDICE.

Trajan, A, B, A.

Hadrian, A, B, A.

Antoninus Pius, A.

M. Aurelius, A, B.

L. Verus, A.
AXTIOCH- SELEUCIS AND PIERIA.

Domitian, A, .

Nerva, A, B, T, A, , <3, H, 0, I ; K.

Trajan, A, B, T, A, 6, S, Z, H, , 6 I, Al, Bl, IT; B 7 ;
K, TA, X.

Hadrian, A, B, T, , Z, H, 0, I ; AB, FA, 8 S-

Antoninus Pius, A, B, l~, A, 6, <5, Z, H, 0, I, I A, IB.

Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, A, B, H.

M. Aurelius, A, B, A, 6, Z, 0, IA, Bl, H.

L. Verus, A, , S, H, Al, Bl, H.

Commodus, A, 0.

Septimius Severus, A, A I, IB.

Caracalla, B.
EMISA

Antoninus Pius, A, B, l~, A, , <5.

Julia Domna, A.
SELEUCIA PIEKIA

Trajan, A, B, T, A, , S, Z, 0; A.

Hadrian, T, A.

Antoninus Pius, A, B, A, .

A survey of the list will show that the custom of
placing the letters upon the coins was introduced at
Antioch under Domitian, and that it did not finally die
out until the reign of Caracalla. In the cities which
adopted it, it was practically universal from the time of
Nerva until that of Commodus ; for it must be remem-

6 This, and not C, is the reading of Mion. V., p. 197, No. 397.

7 This, and not merely BA, is the reading of Mion. V., p. 197, No. 396.

8 This, and not I A, is the reading of Mion. V., p. 198, No. 406.

I 2

108 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

bered that the omission of an emperor's name from the
list is due not merely to the absence of letters, but to
the absence of coins. As regards the letters themselves,
it is plain that, with a very few exceptions (to be dis-
cussed presently), they represent the ordinary series of
Greek numerals. The essential point to notice is that
in no instance do they go beyond 13.

If we turn now to the reverses of the coins struck at
Zeugma under Antoninus Pius, it will be found that the
variations in type and inscription are such as will enable
us quite readily to distinguish three (or possibly four 9 )
separate issues. 10 In the following brief description it is
the points of difference that are emphasised :

First Issue. ZGY TMA TGCON (from L, downwards). Tetra-
style temple, with peribolos and colonnades, the whole
protected in front by a panelled wall; the roof of
the temple is flat ; numeral letter in field r. (A, B).

Second Issue. Same inscr. Similar type ; the pediment of the temple
rises high above the roof, and has upon its summit
a crescent with horns upwards ; numeral letter in
field 1. (A, B, T, 6, 5, Z, H, 0).

(Coins of this second issue are frequently counter-
marked on the obverse with a star.)

Third Issue. XYrM AT6CON n (from L, upwards). Similar type;
pediment shown ; no crescent ; numeral letter in
field r. (A, B), or beneath (l~, A, 6, 5, X, H) ;
the whole enclosed within a wreath.

9 The variation in the position of the numeral letter in what is called
below the "Third Issue" may indicate a difference of issue. As the
evidence stands at present, I think not.

10 The classification here indicated suggested itself when I was arranging
the Hunterian coins of Zeugma. Subsequently, through the kindness of
Mr. Wroth, M. Babelon, and Dr. K. Regling, I was able to test it by
applying it to casts of all the relevant specimens in the Museums at
London, Paris, and Berlin. In every instance where the details were
decipherable, the coin fell naturally into its place. The chronological
older of the issues is, of course, less certain.

11 The form X is invariable in this issue, so far as my observations go,
just as Z is invariable in the two earlier issues. The Z of B.M.C.
Galatia, p. 124, No. 1, is a misprint.

THE NUMERAL LETTERS ON SYRIAN COINS. 109

It will be seen that each separate issue has its own
cycle of numerals, beginning in every case with A. The
next step ig to compare this result with the evidence
supplied by the class of pieces for which the not very
euphonious name of "pseudo-autonomous" has recently
been proposed. Only two of the cities in question struck
coins that will help us here. 12 These were Hieropolis
and Antioch. The following are all the examples I have
been able to collect. In the case of Hieropolis the dates
are reckoned from the Seleucid Era, and in the case of
Antioch, from the Caesarian Era.

HlEKOPOLIS

ZMY [447] A.
ZNY [457] A, B, T.
AOY [471] A, B.
TOY [473] H.

ANTIOCH

OP [170] 1S A.
ZOP [177] A, B, F, G.

SP [190] 0.
ASP [194] A, B, T, A.

eqp [195] A, B, r, 14 A, e, z, H, e, i.

ZC [207] A.
BIG [212] Bl. 15

A simple calculation will show that all these pieces
fall within the period during which the numeral letters
appear regularly on the imperial coins. Further, scanty

12 The pseudo-autonomous coins of Seleucia Pieria occasionally bear
letters, but they have no dates (B.M.C. Galatia, p. 272, No. 29 f.).

13 The coin reported by Leake to have OP, with B in the field (Num.
Hellen., p. 15), has really ZOP.

14 Eckhel (V.N.V. iii., p. 283) cites from Pellerin a coin of the year El P
with A or f. The types, however, are not found elsewhere with the date
EIP, whereas they are characteristic of E^P. No doubt there is a mis-
reading, particularly as the appearance of numeral letters so early as El P
has no parallel.

15 This, and not BA, is the proper reading of Combe,. Mus. Hunter,
p. 30, No. 59.

110 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

as the list is, it contains every year (within that period)
during which the " pseudo-autonomous " money was
issued at all. There can, therefore, be no doubt but
that the letters on the two sets of coins are identical
in purpose and significance. We learned from the first
set that the highest numeral ever found was 13, and also
that the numbers ran in cycles. We see now that the
cycles correspond to years. It is obvious, then, that
each numeral must indicate the month in the course of
which the coin that bears it was struck. The thirteenth
is, of course, the intercalary month, which persisted at
Antioch (and presumably elsewhere in Syria) down to
at least 221 A.D. 16 Parallels will suggest themselves
readily. It seems odd that on the imperial coins there
should be no mention of the year. Possibly the
characteristics of the different issues were regarded as
sufficiently distinctive.

It only remains to deal with the exceptions, which are
not numerous. We found at Antioch K (under Nerva),
K, TA, X, BA" (under Trajan), and AB, FA, ^ (under
Hadrian) ; at Seleucia Pieria A (under Trajan). It is
plain that AB, TA, A, e<^ simply indicate a period covered
by two successive months. In B/r the two months
become three. The remainder (TA, K, K, X) can best
be explained as the result of an attempt or attempts to
introduce at Antioch the custom of placing on the coins,
not the numbers of the months, but the names of the
magistrates a custom that is occasionally found at those
Syrian cities on whose money the numeral letters do not
appear at all. Gabala and Laodicea ad Mare are cases in
point. GEORGE MACDONALD.

18 Sec linger in Iwan-Muller's Handbuch (Hilfs-DiszipUnen-, p. 770).

A FIND
OF SILVER COINS AT COLCHESTER

(See Plate IV.)

ON July 5th, 1902, whilst some workmen were exca-
vating for foundations on premises partly occupied by the
London and Counties Bank in High Street, Colchester,
they found a flat leaden vessel containing a large
number of silver coins. There appears to have been
the usual scramble, and many specimens passed into
private hands, but most of these seem to have been
recovered by the local police. When the authorities at
Colchester were informed of the find, steps were at once
taken to secure as much of the hoard as possible. In
the course of a few days an enquiry was held by the
coroner of the district ; and the jury, having found that
the coins were treasure-trove, they were handed over to
the police and forwarded to H.M. Treasury, and thence to
the British Museum for examination and classification.

The hoard, which, as delivered at the British Museum,
comprised in all 10,926 pieces, consisting mainly of
English "short-cross" pennies, with a good number of
contemporary Irish and Scottish coins, and some foreign
deniers esterlins. There was not a single specimen of the
English "long-cross" coinage. It is probably the
largest find of mediaeval coins that has ever occurred
in this country. The Chancton find of coins of Edward
the Confessor and Harold II. numbered about 1,700 ;
that of Beaworth, of coins of William I. and II., about
6,500 ; that of Tealby, of coins of Henry II., about
5,700 ; and that of Eccles, which cavers precisely the

112

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

same period as the Colchester find, about 6,220. The
Tutbury hoard of the time of Edward I. and II., found
in 1831, was estimated at 200,000 pieces, but this
number is no doubt excessive (Arch, xxiv., p. 148).
A summary of the Colchester hoard is as follows :

Henry I. (London)

Norwich

Stephen l

Oxford

Rochester

Short-cross Pennies

St. Edmundsbury

457

Canterbury

4,122

Shrewsbury

Carlisle

Wilton

Chichester

Winchester

247

Durham

Worcester

Exeter

York

153

Ilchester (?)

Rhuddlan

Ipswich

Uncertain

Lenn or Lynn

Irish (John)

160

Lincoln

100

Scottish (William the

Lion

London

5,096

and Alexander II.)

168

Northampton

Foreign deniers esterlim

Total 10,926

On comparing this hoard with that found at Eccles
in 1864, which, as already mentioned, comprised about
6,220 pieces, it will be seen that in the case of the more
important mints their respective numbers stand at a
little below two to one, thus :

Eccles.

Colchester.

Canterbury

2,278

4,122

Exeter

Ipswich

Lincoln

100

London

2,643

5,096

Oxford

St. Edmundsbury

212

457

Winchester

142

247

York

153

1 There was, I believe, another specimen of Stephen's coinage in the
hoard, but it was not surrendered to the Treasury with other coins which
were handed in by the holder.

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 113

The less important mints show more variation, and in
the case of the Irish coins the numbers are 104 to 160 ;
in the Scottish series, 196 to 168 ; and foreign deniers,
4 to 23.

The two coins of Henry I. do not call for any special
remark. Both pieces are described by Mr. Andrew in
his account of the coinage of that king (see Num. Chron.,
1901); but as to the reading of the legend on the
reverse of the coin of Stephen, I am still in some doubt
as regards the moneyer and the mint.

Turning to the " short-cross " coins, which formed the
bulk of the hoard, the question which would naturally
be uppermost in the mind of the English numismatist is
whether the classification proposed by Sir John Evans so
far back as 1865, and published in that year in the
Numismatic Chronicle, 2 bears the test of this large hoard.
The answer must at once be given in the affirmative,
for the hoard not only completely confirms that classi-
fication, and, with the exception of a few new moneyers'
names, practically adds but little to what is already
known of English numismatics during the period over
which the short-cross series extended. But for the
addition of these moneyers' names, the table of mints
and moneyers published in 1865 remains unaltered. The
hoard, too, has not added a single new mint, so we may
conclude that all those in operation between 1186 and
1248 are now known to us. As it will therefore not be
necessary for me to repeat the arguments used by Sir
John Evans, which led up to his classification of the
short-cross coinage, I shall limit my remarks chiefly to
an analysis of this particular hoard in respect of the

2 See Num. Chron., 1865, p. 219 f.

114 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

moneyers and the history of the mints. As, however, it
is by no means improbable that some Members of the
Society may not be able conveniently to consult the
Chronicle of 1865, I shall make one exception, which
is that I shall repeat that portion of Sir John Evans's
paper which describes the variations of the portraits of
the monarchs, always the obverse type, and on which
the classification of the short-cross money is based.

These variations are arranged in five distinct classes
as follows :

Class I. Large, well spread coins ; workmanship fine,
see PI. iv. though in but slight relief ; head turned
slightly to the left, usually two curls on
the dexter and five on the sinister side ; five pearls to
the crown. Occasionally the curls are more numerous
viz., three to five on the dexter and six to eight on the
sinister side, but the general appearance of the bust is
preserved. Dots are found at intervals between the
words of the legends, especially on the later coins,
whilst on the earlier pieces the Koman E for Q, and C for
a are sometimes met with. The letter A is scarcely ever
barred, and the various forms are ft, TV, ft, R, Zf, the
last very rarely. Throughout this and all the other
classes the letter w is written w.

Class II. Coins rather reduced in size and of flat
seePi.iv. relief; workmanship coarse, very rude

Nos. 5-10. , -i-i

later on, ana again less coarse ; more tnan
five pearls to the crown, and frequently a mere beaded
irregular line. The bust has the appearance of being
full-faced, and the number of curls varies from four or

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 115

five on a side to a single curl, the number on either side
being generally equal. The eyes are sometimes repre-
sented by annulets and sometimes by pellets, and the
beard by pellets or small crescents. Some of the later
pieces (PL iv. Nos. 8-10) show an improvement in style
and workmanship: the beard is slightly pointed, and
the face is well marked in outline. They also have
generally three curls on each side of the head. These
coins appear to be intermediate between Class II. and
Class III., and thus form a connecting link. The letter
A is not barred, and its usual form is the simple fl. The
.Roman E or C is not met with.

Class III. Smaller coins of neat workmanship and in
see PI. iv. good relief; a long face narrowing much
to the chin, and the line of the bust
clearly defined; beard pointed, formed of straight
strokes and joining on to the curls, which are always
two in number on either side of the head, each enclosing
a pellet. The bust varies a little, the chin being repre-
sented slightly broader, but the beard is always pointed
and well defined. The letters of the legend on the
reverse are sometimes linked in monogram, especially in
the case of the London, Northampton, and Norwich
coins. To this class belong the coins of London without
a moneyer's name, and reading LONDON aiVlTsS, QIVITS
or CHVIS. Stops occur frequently in the legends in this
and the next class.

Class IV. Bust similar to the last, but with more than

see PI. iv. two curls on one or both sides, though as a

rule not exceeding three. Sometimes the

lower curl is extremely small. The beard is always

116 NUMISMATIC CHEONICLE.

pointed. The busts on some of the coins with three
curls on one side show the transition into Class V.

These two classes are properly varieties of one class,
but, as we shall hope to show, mark separate issues. They
also possess two marked peculiarities.

(a.) Coins with the cross pommee mint-mark. These
as a rule are of good relief and of much better workman-
ship than other coins of these two classes. They usually
present the peculiarity of the S reversed, and the word
R8X is sometimes divided by the sceptre R8 X, instead
of the usual R 8X. The coins of this variety are noted
in the description of the hoard by a !. When coins
with the ordinary cross pattee mint-mark occur of the
same moneyer, a + is added in the table showing the
sequence of the money ers (p. 139).

(I.) Coins with ornamental letters. The letters to
which ornamented terminations have been given are
the C( and 9, the ends of which are frequently curled
round and sometimes enclose pellets OB or es or occasion-
ally flourished or. The letter A is always barred, s, and
sometimes made ornamental, yt, but this form has only
been met with in the name of HB8L of London and RRVF
of St. Edmundsbury, the latter using sometimes ^ for T.
The upright strokes of B's and D's and the transverse
one of N's are sometimes made double, whilst the tails of
the h's and R's are often prolonged and curved, and
letters are joined, as W=VN; R=SR.

Class V. Coins still somewhat smaller. Though having
see PI. iv. a neat appearance, the workmanship is

Nos. 17-20. . . ' , . , , .

inferior to that of the two preceding
classes, and the striking is done carelessly. The
bust is placed lower down to the inner circle, and

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 117

at first the neck and beard are shown, and the chin
usually terminates in a pellet; later on the chin
disappears, the beard and face broaden out, and very
little of the former remains, the inner circle approaching
nearly to the mouth. The curls are usually three on
each side and formed of crescents enclosing pellets ;
sometimes there are only two curls, and in the earlier
pieces the lowest curl is very small, as in Class IV.
Stops are interspersed in the legend on the reverse,
not infrequently dividing the syllables, as IO hRN ON
(XANTe(R; S LIS ON LVN DS ; hS LIS ON - LVN
DS; TQR Rl ON - LVN - D - 3

The coins of all live classes have the king's name
" Henricus," though they were issued by Kichard I. and
John, as well as by Henry II. and Henry III. The
chronological sequence of the short-cross coinage is
therefore based, not on the king's name, but on the
variations of the king's portrait. This is the only
instance in the English coinage of monarchs using
throughout their coinage not their own name but that
of a predecessor. Edward VI. at the beginning of his
reign struck gold coins with his own portrait, but with
the name of his father, Henry VIII. ; and Henry VIII.
himself and Charles I. adopted their father's portrait.

In describing such a large number of coins of the
same issue, after giving the general type, the reverse
legends only are set out, but the various spellings of the
mint names under each moneyer have been carefully
noted, with the number of specimens of each. Following
the descriptions of the coins is a table of mints and

3 These pellets or stops occur but rarely on Canterbury and other coins,
so they have not been noticed in the descriptions; but being more fre-
quent on the London coins they have been noted.

118 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

moneyers, the latter being placed in their supposed
chronological sequence. It is practically a reprint of
the list given by Sir John Evans in 1865, with the new
moneyers' names added. Moneyers not represented in
the Colchester hoard are distinguished by a line below,
and those which were hitherto unknown by an asterisk.
Specimens with the cross pommee mint-mark are also
noted.

DESCRIPTIONS OF THE COINS.

HENKY I.

(Pennies.)
LONDON.

Obv. * hENRICVS RfEX]. Crowned bust facing.
Rev. [*] PVLSfiR ON LVN[DE]. Cross fleury. Coins.

Hks. Type iv. ; Andrew, Type xi. 1

Obv. 3? hENRIC. Crowned bust, three-quarters to left ; sceptre

in right hand.
Rev. * B[7\LDEPINE ON] LVN. Cross fleury with pellet in

each angle over square of slightly concave sides, and with

fleur-de-lis at each angle.

Hhs. no. 255 ; Andrew, Type xv. 1

STEPHEN.
(Penny.)
OXFORD ?

Obv. <%< STIEFNE. Crowned bust, slightly turned to left;

sceptre in right hand.
Rev. ^ Pfil_[TER O]N OXCE. 4 Short double cross within

quatrefoil, having a fleur-de-lis inwards at each angle.
Hies. no. 268.

Carried forward
4 This reading is somewhat uncertain.

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 119

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 3

SHORT-CROSS COINAGE.
(Pennies.)

Type.

Obv. Head of king, three-quarters to left or facing, crowned,
with beard; in right hand, sceptre ; around, %* hSNRICVS
RSX.

Rev. Short-cross voided ; cross pommee in each angle ; around,
names of money er and mint. 5

CANTERBURY.
Class L
None.

Class II.

3RNAVD ON C(AN 6 (1) 1
SOLDWIN9 ON a (21); C-A (15); QAN (7); without

ON (2); no mint name (3) 48

hVQ ON C(fi NT (2); C(ANTI (2) 4

IOAN ON C(ANT(3); aANTSR (1); C-ANTR (4) 8

lOhAN ON C(ffN (2) 2

M6UNIR ON (XAN(42); CANT (14) 56

R6UNALD ON C((l); C(A (17); C(AN (10) 28

RSINAVD ON 0(5); aA(ll); OAN (7) 23

ROBQRD ON aA(16); CAN (36); C(ANT (4) 56

8AMV6(L ON (XA (2) 2

SIMVN ON C(AN (2) 2
VLARD ON CAN (17); aANT(29); aANTQ(2); QANTI(2);

aANTR (4) 54

Uncertain moneyers (6) 6

Class III.

ANDRQV ON C(A (1); QAN (1) 2

ARNAVD ON 0(2); C(A(44); C(AN (2) 48

^ ARNAVD ON C(A (1) 1

OOLDWINQ ON (29); OA (14) 43

Carried forward 387

5 The name of the king and the moneyer's name is always preceded by
a mint-mark, a cross patte'e or a cross pommee. In the list of moneyers the
occurrence of the cross pomme'e only is noted.

6 The word ON always occurs before the mint name, but is given in the
list in the first instance only. Any exceptions are specially noted.

120 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

CANTERBURY (continued).

No. of

Coins.

Brought forward 387

* aOLDWINQ ON a (2) 2
haNRI ON aSN(l); aSNT(15); CfaNTS (28) 44

! hSRNSVD ON 0(1) 1

hIVN ON aSNTa (22) 22

hV6( ON aSNTQ (39) 39

* hV6( ON as NTS (1) 1
IVN ON aSNT(l); aSNTaO (2) 3
IOSN ON aSNTa(2) 2
lOhSN ON as (2); aSN(33); aSNT(20); aSNT6( (19) 74

* lOhSN ON aSN(6); aSNT (4) 10
lOhSN . B ON as (10); OSN (2) 12
lOhfiN M - ON as (29); CSN (5) 34
RSVF ON aSN (1) 1
ROB9RD ON as(32); aSN (26) 58
ROBERT ON aSNT (3) 3
ROB9T ON aSN (1) 1
ROS3R ON aSN(l); aSNT(2); aSNT6( (12) 15
SSL6(MVN ON as (4) 4
SSMVaL ON as (15)5 aSN(37); aSNT (9) 61

^ 3SMV8L ON as (1) 1

SIMON ON aSN(6); OSNT (31) ; aSNTQ (2) 39

* SIMON ON aSN (2) 2
SIMVN ON aSNT(5); aSNTS (14) 19
TOMSS ON aSNT(5) 5
WSLTaR ON as (13); aSN(27); double struck (1) 41
Uncertain moneyers (7) 7

Class IV.

SRNSVD ON OS (1) 1

* SRNSVD ON OS (3) 3
6OLDWIN3 ON a (2) 2

* soLowma ON a(i) i

hSNRI ON aSNT(5); aSNTS (13) 18

hIVN ON aSNT6( (12) 12

hV6( ON as NTS (2) 2

IOSN ON aSNTa(4); aSNTS (6) 10

lOhSN ON aSN(5); aSNT(4); aSNTQ (3) 12

f lOhSN ON aSN (4) 4

IVN ON aSNT6((l) 1

ROB^RD ON as(l); aSN (2) 3

^ ROBSRD ON aSN (2) 2

ROSaR ON aSNT(5); aSNTGC (7) 12

SSMVSL ON aSN(8); OSNT (12); aSNTQ (1) 21

Carried forward 992

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 121

CANTERBURY (continued).

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 992

SAMVaL ON as (4) 4

SIMON ON aSN (3) 3

SIMVN ON aSN (1); aSNT (2); aSNTS (15) 18

TOMSS ON aSNT(3); OSNTa (1) 4

WALTER ON OS (2); aSN(10); aSNT (2) 14

WSTSR ON OS N (3) 3

Uncertain moneyers (2) 2

Class V.

hSNRI ON aSN(45); aSNT(252); aSNTS (113) 410
IVN ON aSNT (1); aSNTS (15); aSNTQR (73);

aSNT3RB(6); aSNT3RD(20) 115
IOSN ON aSN(6); aSNT(40); aSNT6U237); OSNTSR

(87); blundered (9) 379

IOSN ahia ON a (12); as (103); aSN (31) 146

IOSN ahlQ ON as (28); aSN (9) 37

IOSN ahl ON aAN (3) 3

IOSN F - R ON aSN (90); aSNT(36) 126
lOhSN ON OS (1); aSN (5); aSNT (4); OAfT (2);

OS NTS (4); double struck (1) 17

NiahOLS ON as(l) 1

NORMSN ON aSN (10) 10

OSMVND ON OS (8); aSN(153); aSNT(49); blundered (1) 211

osMVNoa ON as (17); asN (5) 22

OSMVNT ON as (1); OSN (1) 2
ROB6CRT ON a (5); as (10); aSN (26); aSNT (9);

double struck (1) 51

ROBaRT VI ON aSN (2) 2

RO66(R ON as (I); aSN (82) : aSNT (206); aSNTa (21) 310
ROSaR OF R ON a (112); OS (134); OSN (5);

blundered (9) 260

[R]O69R OF R ON as (1) 1

SSL3MVN ON a (10); aA (o2) ; CSN (4) 66
SSMVaL ON a (1); as (3); OSN (31); aSNT (22);

aST (2) 59

SIMON ON aSN(l); OS NT (20) 21

SIMON aSNTSR(l) 1
SIMVN ON aSN (1); OSNT (60); OSNTS (96);

aSNTSR (4) 161

TOMSS ON aSN(17): aSNT(231); OS NTS (102) 350

WST3R ON aSN (11); OSNT (4) 15

WILLSM ON OS (7); OSN (75); aSNT(52); aSNTQ (1) 135

WILSM ON aSN(4); OS NT (4) 8

Carried forward 3959
VOL. IIL, SEKIES IV. K

122

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
CANTEEBUKY (continued).

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 3959

WILLQM - TA - ON a (14); OR (127); CRN (1)
WILOM - TA - ON OR (5)
Uncertain money ers (19)

CARLISLE.

Class I.
ON OfiR(l); OfiRD (7)

142

Class IT.
fiLTXIN ON OfiR(3); OfiRD (3)

TOMKS ON OSR (5)
TOMKS ON OKR (2)

Class III.
Class IV.

CHICHESTER.
Class II.

ON 01 (2); 010(1); 1 7 (1)
6OLDWINO ON 01 (1)
ROIN7WD ON 01 (1)

Class III.

PIOROS ON 010(2); 0100(5)
R7WF ON 0100 (3); OIOOS (1)
SIMON ON 0100(3); 01008(2)
! SIMON ON 0100(1)
WILLOLM ON 010(6)
WILLOLM 010(1)

Class IV.

R7WF ON 0100 (2)
! SIMON ON 0100(2)

DURHAM.

Class II.
KLOIN ON DVN (1); DVRO (2)

Carried forward 4183

7 01 ? This coin, from its moneyer's name, evidently belongs to
Chichester; hut another coin of Class II. reading hORNTWD ON I is
usually attributed to Ilchester (see p. 123).

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 123

DURHAM (continued').

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 4183
Class III.

P6(Re(3 ON DVR6((1) 1

PIQRe(S ON DVR(12j; DVR8 (2) 14

Class IV.
PI6(Re(S ON DVR(l); DVR3 (1) 2

Class V.
PiemSS ON DVR (1) 1

EXETER.

Class I.
IORD7XN ON 9X8(1(2) 2

OSBSR ON ecxaae;s(2) 2

RTWL ON sxeuxeco); sxaass (i) 2

ON QXe(a(7) 7

ON 8X6(3(3) 3

Class II.

ON aaa(4) 4

Class III.
GILSBSRD ON 90(7) 7

ON e;a(i) i

ON aaa(i); e(cxae((7) s

! ioh^N ON aaaec(i) i

RIQARD ON ea(l); BWO (8) 9

* Ria^RD ON aaaei(i) i

Cfass IF.

^ RiasRD ON eract(i) i

ILCHESTER ?

C/ass II.
^ hSRNAVD ON I (I) 8 1

IPSWICH.

Class III.

KLISSNDR ON 6(1) 1

ON 6(16); 61(3) 19

ON 61 PS (10) 10

Class IV.

KLISfiNDR ON 6(1) 1

SLISSNDRQ ON 6 (2); 61 (1) 3

Carried forward 4284

8 See also coin of SVSRARD ON I given to Chichester.

K 2

124

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 4284

LENN OR LYNN.

Class III.

lOhAN ON LQN(2); LQNa(l); LQNN (1)
NICHOLS ON LQN(l); LN (4)
WILLQLM ON LQ(4); LQN (2)

Class IV.
lOhAN ON LQNN (3)

WILLQLM ON LS (1)

LINCOLN.

Class I.

QDMVND ON NiaO (3); NiaOL (1)
6IRARD ON NiaOL (1)
L61FWIN ON NiaO(6)
WALTER ON NiaOL(l)
WILLQLM ON NiaO(3)
WILL D F ON NiaO(3)

Class II.

QDMVND ON NICX (2)
RANDVL ON N : (1): Nl (2)
WILLQLM ON Nia(l); NI(XO(3) NiaOL(l)

Class III.

ALAIN ON NiaOL(2)
ANDRSV ON Nia(25); NICK) (4)
ANDR6(V ON NiaO(l)
hV ON NIC(OL(4); NiaOL6((24)
RAVF ON NiaOL(3)
RIQARD ON NI(XO(1)
TOM AS ON NiaO(2); NiaOL(3)

29
1

28
3
1
5

! ALAIN ON NIC(O(2)
* ANDRSON NiaO(l)

Class IV.

LONDON.

Class I.

AIM3R ON LVN(l); LVND(3); LVNDQ(l)
ALAIN ON LVND(3); LVNDQ (4)
ALAIN . V ON LVND(l)

Carried forward 4417

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 125

LONDON (continued).

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 4417

Fit - filMSR ON LVN (5 one halfpenny) 5

SIL6(Be(RT ON LVN (2) 2

hQNRI ON LVN(l); LVND(l); LVNDS(2); LVNDI (1) 5

ON LVND(4); LVNDQ(l) 5

ON LVND(4); LVNDS(2); LVNDE (1) 7

OSBSR ON LVND(14); LVNDS?(1) 15

PI6(RQS ON LVND(6); LVNDS(l); L - - (2) 9

PIQRSS M ON LVN (6); LVND (1) 7

RfiNDVL ON LVND(l) 1

R7WL ON LVN(l); LVND (9); LVND6((8); L (1) 19

RGUNfiLD ON LVN (3) 3

STIVSNS ON LVND(l) 1

WILLQLM ON LVN (2); LVND (2) 4

Class II.

filMQR ON LVN (3); LVND (13); LVND6((2); LVNDE (1) 19

D7WI ON LVND (22).' LVND6((1) 23
FVLK9ON LVND(9); LVND or LVN D9 (1); LVNDQI(l);

LVND6(I(1) 12

IRQ or [FV]LK6( ON LVND (1) 1

SSFRGU ON LVN (1); LVND (2) 3

l8FReU ON LVND(l) 1

SILQBQRT ON LVN (1) 1

6OLDWIN6C ON L(l); LVN (1) 2

hSIM ON LVN (1) 1
hSNRI ON LVN (4); LVND (16); LVNDI (3); LVNI (1);

L (1) 25

hQNRI or hQNRia ON LVND (3) 3

hSNRICX ON LV(1); LVN (10); LVND (5); L - - (1) 17

ON LVN (1) 1

ON LVND (3); LVNDQ(l) 4

PISRSS ON LVN (4); LVND (22) 26

pietRecs cn ON LVN (2) 2

R7WL ON LVN (3); LVND (17); LVND8 (65);

LVNDSN (1); L -(3) 89

RAVF ON LVND (1) 1

RSINfiLD ON LVND(l) 1
RiaTXRD ON LV(1); LVN(37); LVND(48); LVNDE(2);

LVNDQN(l); L (1) 90

ON LV(17); LVN(41); LVND(13); LVNDI (1) 72

ON L(3); LV (1) 4

WfiLTQR ON LV(2); LVN (1) 3

Carried forward 4901

12(5 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

LONDON (continued).

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 4901
WILLQLM ON LV(9); LVN (33); LVND (13); LVNDS(l);

L -(7); LVDI (1) 64

MVJ HV MJBJJIW(l) 1

WILL6CM ON LVN (8); LVND (3); L - - (2) 13

Uncertain (7) 7

Class III.

7* BSL ON LVN (3); LVND (72); LVN D6( (229);

LVNDSN(8); L (9); LVDS (1) 322
fiDfiM ON LVND (8)5 LVND3 (32); LVND3N (1);

L - - (1) 42

BQNSIT ON LVN (5); LVND (21) 26

BetNGU ON LVND (2); L (1) 3

FVLK9 ON LVND (7); LVNDS(2) 9

! FVLKS ON LVND (4) 4

* hSNRI ON LVND (3); LVND3(2) 5

IL66CR ON LVN (30); LVND (112); LVNDQ (215);

LVND6(N(2); L - (7J); LVNV(l); LVQ (1) 369

IL<36(. R ON LVND8N (1) 1

IL6SR ON LVND6((1) 1

ILSSL ON LVNDS(l) 1

lOhAN ON LVN(l); LVND (3) 4
RAVF ON LVN (7); LVND (124); LVN D (1);

LVND6((195); LVNDQN (6); L (4) 337

R7WLF ON LVND (3); LVND6((16) 19

R7WL ON LVND(l) 1

[R]flOL ON L (1) 1

ON LVN (7); LVND (27); LVNDQ(2) 36

ON LVN (8) 8

RICXftRD ON LV(1); LVN (3) ; LVND (1) 5

B ON LV(17); LVN (10); L - - (1) 28

T ON LV (2); LVN (4) 6
WALTER ON L (1); LV (142); LVN or LW (122);

LVND (3); LVND6((3); L - - (6) 277

WRLT6(R ON LVN (1) ' 1

RfiLTQR ON LVN (2) 2

W^LVTSR ON LV(1) 1

WATQR ON LVN (6); LVND (4); LVND9(1) 11

WA ON LV(1); LVN (1) 2

WLKTSR ON LV(5); LVN (6); LVND(l) 12

WILLSLM ON LV(2 9 ); LVN (5); LVND(l); L (1) 9

WILLSLM ON LV(2); LVN (1) 3

Carried forward 6.132
9 Oae of these may be WILLSLM B, L or T.

THE COLCHESTER FIND.

127

LONDON (continued).

Brought forward
WILLQLM ON LVN (1)
WILLEM or WILLQN ON LVND(3)

* WILLQM ON LVN (3)

* WIL3M ON ON LV(1)
WLLSN ON LVND(l)

WILLQLM-B ON LV(32); LVN (14); L - -(1); V (1)
WILLQLM-L ON LV(25); LVN (15); L (2) ; V (1)
WILL9M-L ON LVN (1)

WILLQLM-T ON L(l); LV (30); LV or LVN (2)1; LVN(8)
Uncertain ON LV (1) ; LVN (3); LVND (3); LVNDS (8);

L . - (3)
LONDS C(IVITAS(1); aiVITS(2); aiVIS (1)

Class IV.

fiBetLorfiBSL ON LVND(l); LVNDQ(32); LVND6(N(1)
KDKM ON LVND (2); LVN OS (1)
RLfilN ON LVNDS(l)
fiRNTWD ON LV(1)
B9NSIT ON LVND(l)
FVLKS ON LVND (1)

* FVLK9 ON LVND(l)
hQNRI ON LVND9(1)

^ hQNRI ON LVNDQ(l)

ILSSR ON LVND (7); LVNDQ(24)

IOKAN ON LVND(l)

PIRSS ON LVN DS (1)

R7WF ON LVNDS(19)i L (1)

RQNG(R ON LVN (2); LVND (1)

* RICXfiRD ON LVN (2)

ON LV(1)

ON LVN (2)
WILL9LM ON LVN (1)
WILLSLM ON LV(1)
WILLQM ON LVN (1)
WILLSLM-B ON LV(2); LVN (1)
WILLSLM-L ON L (2)
WILLQLM-T ON LVN (1)

Class V.

HBSL ON LVN (2); LVND (20); LVND9(82); LVND9N(2);
L (1)

ON LVND (78); LVN -D (23); LVND6C
LVN DEN (35); L -(19)

No. of

Coins.

6532

18
4

20
3
2
1
2
1
1
1
3
2
1

107

535
Carried forward 7452

128 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

LONDON (continued).

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 7452
QLIS ON LVND9 (91); LVN -061(2); LVNDQN (81);

LVN-DQN (2); L - -(5) 181

Q-LIS-ON LVN- D6( (1) 1

hSLIS ON LVND(l); LVN D (4) ; LVND6((3) 8

hfl-LIS ON LVN-D6(.(2) ' 2
6IFFR6U ON LV(4); LVN (180); LVN D (101); LVND6((9);

L (5) 299

SIFFRieC ON LVN (7) 7

SIFFRI ON LVNDS(6) 6

SIFRQI ON LVN-D(2); LVNDS(l) 3
IL66(R ON LVN (10); LVND (167); LVN - D (42);

LVND6((113); LVN-D6((4); LVNDQN (7); L (5);

LV-D6((1) 349

ILSSSR ON LVND(l) 1

ILSR ON LVND6((2) 2

IL69 ON LVNDS(3) 3

ISG(R ON LVND (2) 2
LGCDVLF ON LV (4); LVN (170); LVND (170);

LVNDG((10); L - - (5) ; LVD (6) 365

LQDVFFS ON LV (2) 2

LQDVF ON LVND (7); LVN D (7) 14

LSDLVF ON LVN (2) 2

NIChOLQ ON LVN (1) 1

R7WF ON LVN(l); LVND(14); LVND6((58); L - . (2) 75
R7WLF ON LVN (23); LVND (92); LVN D (11);

LVNDS(25); L (7) 158
RICKRD ON LV(5); LVN(228); LVND (93); LVND6((4);

L (10); O LVND (2); LVO (15) 357

RICttRD ON LVN (5) 5
T6CRRI ON LVN (5); LVND (60); LVN-D(16); LVND9

(20); L (2) 103
T6(R.RI ON LVN (4); LVND (13); LVN D (11);

LVN D6C (3) 31

T6(RIRI ON LVN (3) 3

T6CRI ON LVNDQ(l) 1

WRLTSR ON LV(19); LVN (16) ! LVND (3); L . - (3) 41

WLT^TSR ON LV(1); LVN (5); LVND (2) 8

WflTetR ON LVN(l); LVND(l); LVND6{(1) 3

Uncertain ON LVND (4); LVND6((4); LVNDSN (1) 9

Classes and raoneyers uncertain (5) 5

Carried forward 9500

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 129

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 9500
NORTHAMPTON.

Class I.

F!L1P ON NORhT(l) 1

10 6IF6(ReU ON NOhft (1) 1

hVSO ON NORhT(2) 2

R7WL ON NORh(3) 3

"SIMVN ON NORh(2) 2

12 WALTER ON NOR (6) 6

Class II.

RANDVL ON NO (2); NOR (3) 5

ROBSRD ON NOR (1) 1

WALTER ON NOR (2) 2

Class III.

ON NORh(13); NCRH (5) 18

ROBSRD T ON N (2); NO (5); NCR (12) 19

Class IV.

SDfiM ON NORh(6) 6

ROBSRD ON NCRh(l) 1

NORWICH.

Class I.

RGUNALD ON NCR (8) 8

Class II.

R6UNALD ON. NOR (2) 2

WILLQLM ON NO(1); NOR (1) 2

Class III.

IQFQReU ON NCR (1) 1

SIFRQI ON NOR (5); NORW(l); NORY(l) 7

lOhfiN ON NOR (7); NCR (1) 8

! lOhfiN ON NORW(2) 2

^ R6(NKLD ON NOR (1) 1

R8N7WD ON NO (2); NOR (5); NCR (8) 15

Carried forward 9613

10 Although the name of Gifrei occurs in Classes II., III., and IV.
on coins of Norwich, this coin is given to Northampton as the letter A in
the mint-name is very distinct.

11 These coins are certainly of Class I.

12 One specimen reads hQNRICVS on obv.

No. of
Coins.

130 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

NOKWICH (continued).

Brought forward 9613
.Class IV.

SIFRGU ON NORY(3)

lOhRN ON NOR(l); NORY (4) 5

RGtNfiVD ON NCR(l) 1

OXFOKD.
Class I.

7\SKerni_ ON OXSN (i)

ISFRSI ON oxe(Ne((i) 1

oweuN ON OXSN (i) 1

RiafiRD ON 0X9(1): OXSN (3) 1

13 RODB6(RT ON OX8N (1) 1

"RODBSRT ON COCO?(1) 1

Class III. 15

SILWINQ ON Oa(3); OCXS (2) 5

hSNRI ON OaSG((2) 2

MILSS ON OaSS(5) 5

ROCHESTER.

Class III.

fiLISRN ON ROV(l) 1

SLISfiNDR ON RO(1) 1

KLISSNDRQ ON R (2) 2

hVNFQRSI ON R (1) 1

hVNFReU ON RO(2) 2

Class IV.

KNDR6(V ON R (1) 1

Class V.

16 KNDR6(V ON R (1) 1

ST. EDMUNDSBURY.

Class III.

FOLKS ON S - fiDM (4) 4

FVLK3 ON S fiD (1); S - - ADM (4); S 3DM (4) 9

Carried forward 9665

13 This coin is of very good style, and therefore should be placed early
in the series.

14 Probably a blunder for OXO.

15 Classes IV. and V. not represented.

16 This coin is of coarse work, and the portrait shows no crown, but a
rich mass of hair and beard.

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 131

ST. EDMUNDSBURY (continued).

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 9665

FVKS ON S QDMV(l) 1
RAVF ON SANTA(2); 17 S ANTAD (7) ; S A NTS (2);

S ANT3A (1) 12

RA.VF ON SA.N2/AD (3) 3

Class IV.

FVLKS ON S ADMV(2); S QDM (3) 5
RAVF ON SANTA (1); S ANTAD (10); 18 S ANTS (3);

S ANT9A (6) 20

RA,VF ON S - AJMTAD (1) 1

Class V.

NORMAN ON SAN (63); SANT(30) 03
SIMVND ON SAN (25); SANT (225); SANTQ (26);

SAT (2) 278

SIMVNDGl ON SANT(4) 4

WILL0LM ON SAN(l); SANT(23) 24

Uncertain moneyers (3) 3

IV6( ON SALOP (6)

SHREWSBURY.
Class II.

WILTON.
Class I.

OSB-QR ON WILT (3); WILTV(3) 6

RODBQRT ON WILT (2) 2

WINCHESTER.
Class I.

ADAM ON WINQ(15); WINaS(4) 19

or LLSMSNT ON WIN (5) 5

ON WIN (3); WIN(X(15) 18

19 hENRI ON WINa(2) 2

Carried forward 10167

17 In one case the A in the name of the moneyer is formed A,.

18 Similar in two cases, similar A's.

19 This was probably an early moneyer, as the letter E is square on obv.
and rev. He is not mentioned in Sir John Evans's list.

132 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

WINCHESTER (continued).

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 10167

OSBSR ON WIN(X(3); WINCES (3) 6

OSBGtRN ON WINC((5) 5

R7WF ON WINa(l) 1

RGCINISR ON WIN(X(3) 8

RODB9RT ON WIN (4) 4

WILLSLM ON WIN(l); WINI (1) 2

WILLQM ON WINQ(l) 1

Class II.

SOaSLM ON WIN (5); ON WINC((8) 8

20 h6(NRI ON WIN (1) 1
WILLQLM ON Wl(l); WIN (2); WINCX (1); WN (1);

WNN(2) 7

Class III.

TSDflM ON WIN (9); WING (8); WINaS(l) 18

! T^DSM ON WINQ(l) 1

SNDR9 ON WIN (2) 2

flNDRSV ON Wl(8): WIN (8); WINC((4) 20

B^RTaLQMeC ON W (8) 8

hQNRI ON WIN(l) 1

4- hQNRI ON WIN (1) 1

lOhKN ON WIN (6); WINC((18) 24

LVKAS ON WIN (10); WINC((10) 20

MILQS ON WINa(ll); WINC(e((7) 18

MLQS ON wmae((2) 2

R7WF ON WINa(15); WINaS(4) 19

RICCKRD ON WIN (10); WN (3) 13

Without moneyer's name, i.e. double struck (1) 1

Class TV.

fiDKM ON WIN (6); WINC((2) 8

* KDKM ON WIN (1) 1

KNDR61V ON WIN (1) 1

hetNRi ON wmae((i) i

LVKfiS ON WINC((1) 1

Ml LetS ON WINO((3) 3

RAVF ON WINa(l) 1

ON WIN (1) 1

Carried forward 10370

.This coin has old English 6('s.

THE COLCHESTER FIND.

133

No. of

Coins.

Brought forward 10370

WORCESTER.
Class I.

6OWIN6C ON WIR(9); WIRI (4)
OSBSR ON WIRIO((2)

YORK.

Class I.

SFRfiRD ON aVQR (13)
<36(RfiRD ON 9V6(R(9)
hVSO ON aV6(RW(7); 3VSRWI (2)

isfict ON avetRwi (2)

TVRKIL ON aVR(7); gVRW (1)
WILLSLM ON aVQR (3)

CZass JL
D7WI ON QVe(RV(2); 8V6(RW (1)

ON QV(6); QVQ (2) ; QVaR(2); 3VR (1)
ON QV9RWI (4); QVaRWia(l)

ON SV(1); QV6((2); QVQR (3) ; QVR (2)
R7WL8 ON 6(Va (2)
TVRKIL ON eCVSR (23)

Class III.
D7WI ON SVQR (8)

* DKVI ON 6(Ve(RW (2)

NiaOLS ON aVQ(7); ON QV0R (6)
4- NiaOLS ON QVQR (1)
RSN7WD ON 9V (6)
TOMfiS ON QVQR (3); QVR (7)

Class IV.

* D7WI ON aVQRW (1)

ON eV6(R (1)

ON ecvet(i)
ON ecve(RY (4)

RSNflVD ON QV9(1)

TOMAS ON QVflR (3); aVQRY (3)

WILAM ON QV9R(2); QVR (1J

RHUDDLAN. 21

CZa8 II.

hfiLLI ON RVLT^ retrograde (1) ;
ON RVL7X (1)

13
9
9

8
3

8
2

13
1
6

Carried forward 10540

21 All the coins of this mint are of very rude work.

134 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

KHUDDLAN (continued).

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 10540
SIMOND ON RVLfi (2) 2

* SIMOND ON RVLfi (3) 3

* TOM7XS ON RVLfi (1) 1

Class III.

hSNRICXVS ON RVLfi (2) 2

* SIMOD ON RVLR retrograde (1) I

* SIMOND ON RVLA 22 (4) 4

UNCERTAIN : Class II. (2) ; Class III. (3) ; Class V. (13) (one
reading lOhRN L ON ....); a l so fragments (4) of
thin platings (?) of obv. and rev. 22

IRISH.

(Pennies.)
Type.

Obv. Bust of king, facing, crowned, within a triangle; in r.

hand, sceptre ; on r. quatrefoil ; arranged outside the triangle,

lOhflNNSS R6(X.
Rev. Within a triangle, a flaming star above a crescent ; in each

angle a small star, and at each point a cross ; stars also at

sides of triangle, arranged outside which is the name of the

inoneyer and that of the mint.

JOHN.

DUBLIN.

ROB9RD ON DIVQ (142) 142

WILL61LM ON Dl (2) 2

WILLQM ON Dl(4); DIVS (3) 7

LIMERICK.
WILL8M ON LI (2); LIM6((7) 9

Carried forward 10735
22 The older form of A is here used.

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 135

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 10735

SCOTTISH.

(Pennies.)

WILLIAM THE LION.
Class II.

Obv. Head of king to left, crowned ; before, sceptre ; around

* WILSLMVS R6(X.
Rev. Short double cross voided, star in each angle; around,

names of moneyers, or moneyers and mint.

With mint-name.
PERTH.

WATSR ON pe(RT(2); perr(2) 4

KOXBURGH.

AimetR - ADAM ON ROK(l) 1

RAVL ON ROCX(2); ROaQ (4)

PSRIS ADAM DQ ROa (1); DQ ROai (1) 2

pemecs ADA ON ROKe(e((3) 3

PQRIS ADAM ON ROQ (1) 1

Without mint-name.

hV WALTQR (67); name retrograde (10) 77

hVQ WALTQR O (19) 19

WALTaRQ (1) 1

WALTER - ADAM (6) 6

WALTER 6( - h (2); 9 hV (2); 3 hVSR (1) 5

hSNRI LS RVS(9); retrograde (1) 10

hflNRI RWS(l) 1

hSNRIC L9 RV(2) 2

Uncertain (2) 2

Cto /I., Far. a.
Similar ; but head of king to right ; before, sceptre.

With mint-name.

KOXBUKGH.

ADAiTl ON ROK6((5) 5

AIMSR - ADAM ON RO (2) 2

PSRIS ADAHl ON RO (6) 6

PQRIS ADAM ON RO9 (1) 1

RAVL ON ROK6(BV(1) 1

Carried forward 10890

No. of
Coins.

136 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

SCOTTISH (continued).

Brought forward 10890
ALEXANDER II.

Type.

Obv. Head of king to left, sometimes crowned ; before, sceptre ;

around, * fiLetXfiNDSR RQX.
Eev. Short double cross voided; star in each angle; around,

names of moneyers or moneyers and mint.

With mint-name.
ROXBURGH.

* PQRIS flDTUn D6t ROai (2) 2
fr P3RIS KDKM. ON R (2) 2

* PISRSS ON ROa (9) 9

FOREIGN.

(Deniers.)
ARENSBERG (Gottfried II., Count, A.D. 1156-1235).

Obv. * SODQVORDI. Eagle, with spread win;8.

Eev. ! RRN6(SBe(R(3. Short double cross; cross pomme'e

in each angle. (Chautard, 23 PI. xxv. 10.) 1

CORVEY, Abbey of, xiiith cent.

Obv. * SCS VITV.S mON . Head, facing, of St. Vitus.
Eev. >%* SCS DSPHRNVS. Short double cross; cross

pomme'e in each angle. (Chautard, PL xxvii. 1.) 1

Similar, but legend on rev. SCS DQRHAVSD 1

COLOGNE (Abp. Philip I., A.D. 1167-1191).

Obv. * PHILIP TtRCHISPC. The archbishop seated, facing,

holding crozier and book.
Eev. * SfiNCTfi COLON Ifi. View of the City of Cologne.

(Cappe, 24 PI. ix. 147.) 1

COLOGNE (Abp. Adolphus I., A.D. 1193-1205).

Obv. * 7XDOLPVS fiRCHIQPC. The archbishop, seated,

facing, holding book and crozier.
Eev. * SfiNCTfi COLON Ifi. View of the Cathedral of

Cologne, with flag on either side. (Cappe, PI. x. fig. 152.) 1

Carried forward 10908

23 Imitations des Monnaies au Type Esterlin.

24 Beschreibung der colnischen Mtinzen des Mittelalters.

No. of
Coins.

THE COLCHESTEK FIND. 137

FOREIGN (continued).

Brought forward 10908

COLOGNE (temp. Otto IV., A.D. 1209-1218).

Obv. OTTO INPRRTOR. Bust of emperor, crowned,

facing.
Rev. ! TR N CR COLONI. Short double cross ; cross pomme'e

in each angle. (Chautard, PL xxi. 1.) 1

COLOGNE (Civic xiiith cent.).

Obv. SRNCTR COLON Ifi. Temple surmounted by cross.
Rev. & SfiNCTA COLON IS. Cross patte'e : pellet in each

angle. 1

DORTMUND (temp. Otto IV., A.D. 1209-1218).

Obv. OTTO INPRRTOR. Bust of emperor, facing, crowned.
Rev. * TRemONIR RSR. Short double cross; cross

pomme'e in each angle. (Chautard, PL xxi. 2.) 1

Obv. OTTO INPATOR. Similar.
Rev. * TRemONIS RGIH. Similar. 1

DORTMUND (temp. Frederick II., A.D. 1218-1250).

Obv. ^ FRDIC I.JRR on three sides of lozenge, within
which, head of emperor, crowned ; on 1., hand with sceptre ;
the head is within a circle.

Rev. *T-RMfiNIRat sides of lozenge, within which,
circle enclosing short double cross, with cross pommee in
each angle. (Chautard, PL xxi. 7.) 1

LIPPE (temp. Bernard III., A.D. 1229-1265).

Obv. H6UN RIG' RSX. Bust of king, facing, as in Class III. of
short-cross pennies, i.e. with two curls on each side of head ;
right hand with sceptre.

Rev. 3* LOMQ6O (XIV. Short double cross ; cross pomme'e in

each angle. (Chautard, PL xxvii. 5.) 1

MUNSTEB (Episcopal, xiiith cent.)

Obv. * SHNOTI PAVLI. Head facing, nimbate (as in

Class III.)
Rev. ! MONASTQRIVM. Short double cross; with star of

six points (or roses) in each angle. (Chautard, PL xxv. 7.) 1

Carried forward 10915
VOL. III., SERIES IV. L

138 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

FOKEIGN (continued).

No. of
Coins.

Brought forward 10915
FREDERICK II., Emperor, A.D. 1218-1250.

Obv. * RCXX FRSDQRI S. Bust, facing, crowned; sceptre

in r. hand.
Rev. ! ROOTRNVS R9X. Short double cross ; cross pomme"e

in each angle (5). (Chautard, PI. xxi. 4.) 5

Others with RQI on rev. (2) ; and RQXK (2) 4

UNCERTAIN.

Obv. hetriRiaVS Re(X. Head of king, facing, as in Class III.

of short-cross pennies.
Rev. & SLNIGRNIQRVS Q [P]. Short double cross, with

cross pommee in each angle. 1

Similar; but with head of king as in Class V., and legend on

obv.

10926

THE COLCHESTER FIND.

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156 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

The number of coins in each class of the short-cross coin-
age is as follows : Class I. 303 ; Class II. 901 ; Class III.
2807 ; Class IV. 364 and Class V. 6197. The number of
coins of Classes III. and V. of a single moneyer in the case
of the more important mints, such as Canterbury, London
and St. Edmundsbury, is sometimes very large. In Can-
terbury in Class III. they range from about 40 to 74 for
a considerable number of moneyers ; in Class V. several
range from 115 to 410 ; in London in Class II. of six
moneyers there are from 25 to 90 coins ; in Class III.,
three over 300 ; and in Class V., the numbers vary from
about 103 to 535.

For reasons which will be set out at greater length in
the notes on the mints, I would assign dates to the classes
as follows. This is practically following Sir John Evans's
classification, but with a slight modification.

Class I. Henry II., 2nd issue (1180-1189).

Class II. Kichard and John (1189-1208).

Class III. John (1208-1216).

Class IV. Henry III. (1216-1222).

Class V. (1222-1248).

Sir John Evans suggested that the coins of improved
style under Class II. appeared to be intermediate between
this one and Class III., and as the great re-coinage of
John did not take place till 1208, these, with some of the
baser type of Kichard I. would fill up the space. In
confirmation of this we have the evidence of the
Chichester mint, which, after being in abeyance since the
reign of Stephen, was revived by John in 1204 and was
granted three moneyers. These were Keinaud, Goldwine
and Everard, who all struck coins of rude fabric as
Class II., but Everard also issued some of improved style
approaching the type of the next one. Class III. has

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 157

been attributed to John, and it is these coins only that I
would assign to him, for I do not think it at all probable
that, having established a stereotyped design for his
portrait, any change in that respect would occur again
during his reign. In support of this we have the
evidence of the Irish coins, the issue of which probably
lasted till 1216, and in which no change whatever took
place in the form of the king's bust, which is precisely
similar to that on Class III. The Irish coins were first
issued in 1210, i.e. two years after the reforms in England.
The period of 1216-1222 would then be well filled up by
Class IV., and that would furnish a good reason for a slight
change in the portrait. Later on I hope to be able to
show that greater events must have taken place in 1222 in
connection with the coinage than appear to be recorded.

As to the moneyers, Sir John Evans in his original
paper went very fully into their relation, class by class,
and brought a good deal of historical evidence to support
his classification. As I cannot materially add to that
information I shall only note what new moneyers' names
have been added to the list by the Colchester hoard. As
already mentioned, the names of these new moneyers are
distinguished by an asterisk. They are :

Canterbury. Ernaud and Hue (01. II.) ; Hernaud
( Arnaud ?) and Kauf (01. III.) ; Kobert, Samuel, Kobert
Vi and Willem (01. V.). Eobert Yi is not altogether a
new name, as it occurred in a small hoard of short-cross
pennies described by Mr. L. A. Lawrence in the
Numismatic Chronicle, 1897.

Exeter Eaul (01. I.) and Kicard (01. II. and IV.).

Lenn or Lynn. Johan and Nicole (01. IV.).

Lincoln. Girard (01. I.); Eandul (01. II.); Alain
(01. III.).

158 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

^London. Gilebert, Gefrei or lefrei, Pieres M., Eauf, Gold-
wine, Johan, Heim and Walter (Cl. II.) ; Johan and Kaulf
(01. III.) ; Alain, Pires, Willelm L., and Arnaud (Cl. IV.) ;
Walter, Kaulf (Kauf ?), and Helis (Elis ?) (Cl. V.). Gilebert
is mentioned as a moneyer in a Charter of Kichard I., the
date of which is about 1195 (see Brit. Mus., Add. Ch. 1046).

Northampton. Giferei and Simun (Cl. I.); Koberd
(Cl. II).

Oxford. Kodbert (Cl. I.).

Rochester. Andreu (Cl. IV. and V.).

Winchester. Henri (Cl. I., II. and III.) ; Miles (CL IV.).

York Efrard (Everard) (Cl. I.); Hue and Kaule
(Cl. II.) ; Nicole (Cl. IV.).

Ehuddlan. Henricus (Cl. III.).

Besides these new names it will be seen that the hoard
supplied almost a full list of moneyers who struck the
short-cross pennies. The chief absentees are those who
issued coins of Class I. in London, and these are only
four out of a total of twenty.

Several additions have also been made of the cross-
pommee mint-mark against the moneyers' names. These
it is not necessary to note specially. In his account of the
Eccles hoard, 11 Mr. Vaux went into this question at great
length in connection with foreign deniers, which had
only one result, and that was that he was able to show
that at that time and later this special mint-mark was
in somewhat common use on coins of the Emperors of
Germany, of Cologne, Mtinster and certainly in the Low
Countries. Whether in England it was borrowed from
the Continent or not is of little importance ; and on this
point, I think, Sir John Evans gave the most probable
explanation when he expressed the view that it was only

11 Num. Chron., 1865, p. 219 f.

THE COLCHESTER FIND. 159

the private mark of a set of die engravers in London.
If a moneyer had struck with this mint-mark only, there
might have been a special reason for his using it ; but
since nearly all the moneyers who used the cross-pommee
mark used also the cross-pattee one, it seems difficult to
work out a special theory on this question. One thing,
however, is certain, that the engravers who made the
dies with this special mark were much more skilful at
their art than their fellows (see PI. IV., No. 12). The
general workmanship of these coins is much superior, and
as a rule of higher relief; and the cutting of the die
is very cleanly done. One other peculiarity of these
moneyers was, they often, not always, reversed the letter S.
Mints. In glancing through the comparative table of
mints and moneyers one is much struck at the irregularity
of the issues. It will be seen that there are fewer mints
issuing coins of Class II. than Class I. ; the number is
again raised under Class III., but again reduced under
Class IV., and still much further under Class V. These
changes, I think, in most cases, can be accounted for ;
but in dealing with this subject it is necessary to keep in
one's mind the following data connected with the issue
of the short-cross coinage.

1. The introduction of the short-cross issue in 1180
under the superintendence of Philip Aymary.

2. The inquisition of moneyers, assayers and keepers
of dies in 1208 at Westminster, when writs were issued
to the moneyers of London, Winchester, Exeter,
Chichester, Canterbury, Bochester, Ipswich, Norwich,
Lynn, Lincoln, York, Carlisle, Northampton, Oxford, St.
Edmundsbury, and Durham. 11

11 It is interesting to note that of Class III. (John) we have coins
struck at all these mints, and at these mints only.

160 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

3. The order of 1222 for a coinage of considerable
value, when, as Kuding (Vol. L, p. 181) records, that on
the morrow of Ash - Wednesday Ilger, the king's
goldsmith, and three others, as Custodes Monetae of the
City of London, Adam Blund and seven others, Custodes
Cuneorum, &c., were sworn before the Justiciary, and
eight dies for halfpennies and farthings, were delivered
to them. And afterwards, on the Thursday before Easter,
eight dies for pennies and the same number for half-
pennies and farthings were further supplied, over and
above the eight before mentioned. 12

Sir John Evans has shown that the order for changing
the name of King John to that of King Henry in 1220
does not apply to the coinage, as supposed by Ending,
but to the stamp in use in the Stannaries, for, as we know,
John's name never appeared on his English coins. 13 We
are unable, therefore, to connect the order of 1220 with
the coinage ; but I am of opinion that a very great
change took place two years later, and that it is due to
some regulations made then that, although there may
have been a great increase in the output of the coinage,
there was at the same time a considerable suppression of
the smaller mints, which had been in operation during
the reign of John.

When Henry II. came to the throne, one of his first
acts was to simplify the coinage and by ordering a
general type for all his money, "which should be
continuous," his desire was to establish a greater fixity

12 It is possible that these dies represented eight different mints, but
we only have a record of five mints in operation after 1222. It is
probable that all the mints did not exercise their right, or may not have
received the dies ordered. The dies for the halfpennies and farthings
were evidently not put into use.

13 Num. Chron., 1865, p. 288.

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of type, and so do away with those constant changes
which had hitherto existed. In 1180, when the short-
cross coinage was introduced, this policy was still further
extended, and it is evident that one of the chief objects of
this reformation of the coinage was its centralization, to
be brought about by a reduction of the number of mints
and by placing them under the superintendence of a
general overseer. During the reign of William I. and II.
about 70 mints were in operation ; under Henry I. there
were about 44, and a similar number under Stephen.
Daring the first coinage of Henry II. the number of
mints in operation, as shown by the coins in the National
Collection, is 32, and the effect of the new regulations of
1180 was to reduce the number to 12, or, as circumstances
happened, to 11, Canterbury being at that time, so to say,
in disgrace. These mints were either royal or episcopal
only, the so-called baronial or manorial mints being
entirely swept away. This, I think, is a strong argument
in favour of the theory propounded by Mr. Andrew in
his "History of the Coinage of Henry I.," that the
granting of a manor carried with it sometimes the right
of coinage.

The mints of which we have short-cross pennies
of Class I. (Henry II.) are Carlisle, Exeter, Lincoln,
London, Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Wilton, Win-
chester, Worcester, and York. During the issues of
Class II. and III. (Kichard I. to John) some of these mints
fell into abeyance, and others took their place ; but under
Class IV. (Henry III.) the number is reduced, and under
Class V. (also Henry III.), though the output of coins is
apparently much larger than previously, the number of
mints is only five ; and if the contents of the Colchester
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active operation, viz., Canterbury, London and St.
Edmundsbury. As I think it will be possible, in most
cases, from evidence supplied by Kuding and by Mr.
Andrew, who also drew largely from Euding, to account
for this instability of the centres of coining, I propose to
give a slight sketch of their operations before and during
the period of the short-cross coinage. The mints will be
taken in their alphabetical order.

Canterbury. This mint, which was only second to
London in its activity, dates back from the eighth
century, and was in continuous operation from that time
till and including the first coinage of Henry II. It may
at first sight seem strange that of this mint we have no
short-cross coins of Class I. (Henry II.) ; for though the
name of " Meinir " was inserted by Sir John Evans under
that Class, no specimen which I have met with can be so
attributed ; but they are all of Class II. Mr. Andrew u
states that when Edward the Confessor granted his
rights in the city to the then archbishop, the royal
mint ceased, and thus the absence of any reference to
this mint in Domesday is accounted for. When the
quarrel took place between Henry and Becket, which was
followed by the latter's flight and the forfeiture of all his
privileges, the right of coinage appears to have been
rescinded, and was not restored by the king to the see
during the remainder of his reign. Hence the absence
of coins of Class I. In his first year Kichard I. restored
the coinage to Canterbury, and gave to Hubert, the
Archbishop and his successors, the liberty of three dies
and three moneyers. This grant was confirmed by John
in his first year, and it appears also that, at the same

14 Num. Chron., 1901, p. 131 ff.

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time, a royal mint was re- erected there with three
dies and three moneyers. Henceforth it will be seen that
Canterbury was next to London the most active mint in
striking coins.

Carlisle. A royal mint was established there about
1129, and it appears to have been assigned one moneyer,
as Durant and Erebald only struck coins during the
reign of Henry I. The latter continued to work under
Stephen, and was succeeded by his son William, who
remained in office during Henry II.'s first coinage, and
was followed by Alain in that reign and the next, and by
Thomas under John and during the early issue of
Henry III. It ceased operations in 1222 and again
became active on the issue of the long-cross money, as in
1248 a writ was directed to the magistrates of that city
to choose four persons for the office of moneyers.

Chichester. From 1112-1114 this was an episcopal
mint. It was continued under Stephen ; was dormant
under Henry II. and Kichard I. ; but was revived in 1204
by John, who commanded that there should be three dies
in this city, two for the king and one for the bishop ; and
again in 1205 the king granted to the bishop two of his
dies in that city, and the mint with all its appurtenances
and liberties at a rent of thirty marks. We may there-
fore conclude that the three moneyers, Keinaud, Gold wine
and Everard, whose coins are included in Class II., struck
under John and not under Eichard. In 1208 the officers
of this mint were ordered to appear at Westminster ; but
it is probable the moneyers were reduced to two, as that
number appears under Class IV. As there are no coins
of Class V. we may conclude that the mint came to an
end in 1222, and was not again revived.

Durham. This was an episcopal mint, the right of

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coinage having been granted to Bishop De Carileph by
William I., circ. 1082. It was in abeyance under
William II., but was continued under Henry I., Stephen
and Henry II., who reduced the rent for dies from ten
marks to three marks on account of those which he
first placed in Newcastle ; and who at last took away the
dies which had been used for many years. The privilege
was not restored till 1196, when Eichard I. gave to Philip
of Poitiers, bishop elect, license to make money in the
City of Durham; a permission, it is added, which had
not been granted to his predecessors for a long time back.
Hence there are no coins of Class I. In 1208 the officers
of the Durham mint were summoned to Westminster,
and evidently the grant was confirmed, as we have coins
of Classes III., IV. and V. ; but the dies were apparently
limited to one moneyer only, as we find only the name
Pieres on coins of the last two classes. It would seem,
therefore, that the mint ceased operations soon after 1222,
but was revived in 1252 when Henry III. restored to
Walter, Bishop of Durham, seven of his dies ; but they
could, not have been long in use, as no specimens of the
long-cross money are known with III or TQRC(I after the
king's name. In 1272 Edward I. again restored to the
bishops of Durham the privileges of their see, which
included the right of issuing money.

Exeter. The name of Exeter appears on the coinage
of this country from the time of Alfred, and was continued
through the Anglo-Saxon and Norman Kings to the
reign of John. It was one of the mints which were
closed in 1222, but it was revived on the issue of the
long-cross coinage in 1248.

llehester. That this mint was in operation during the
issue of the short-cross money seems doubtful, as the

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evidence rests on one money er only, whose coin reads
hSRNTWD ON I. Coins of this mint of the Tealby
type are known ; but there are no short-cross pennies
which can be given to Henry II. after 1186. It was
revived on the issue of the long-cross money in 1248. It
is possible that Richard I. on his accession renewed the
grant of coinage, and that, like Lichfield, it was only put
into force by one moneyer, and for a short time. On the
other hand, the coin may be of Chichester if we take into
account the coin of that mint reading QV6(R7\RD ON I.

Ipswich. Mr. Andrew 15 points out that when William I.
confiscated the Earldom of East Anglia, Roger Bigod,
who received the lion's share of the lordships and manors
in Suffolk, had also the custody of the burg of Ipswich
in manu Eegis, and in that capacity was entitled to the
grant of the mint. From this time coins of Ipswich
exist down to the reign of Henry II., i.e. till 1171, when
the king, as Robert de Torigny records, succeeded to
tota Britannia et comitatus de Gippewic. No further
mention is made of the mint till 1208, when the officers
were summoned by writ to Westminster ; and as no coin
exists of Class I. or II. we may conclude that from
1186, till that date it was not in operation. It closed
about 1222, and no further mention is made of it.

Lenn or Lynn. The first record of this mint is met
with in the ninth year (1208) of John, when the money ers
of this and various other places were commanded to
attend at Westminster. This would imply that a mint
had already existed there ; but the only proof of this is a
coin of the first issue of Henry II., Tealby type, which
reads ROeetR ON LSN. It was found at Ampthill, and

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should be in the possession of the Numismatic Society. 16
As there are short-cross pennies of Classes III. and IV. it
is evident that the grant was renewed in 1208, but not
continued after circ. 1222.

Lichfield. The first mention of this mint in the records
is during the reign of Stephen, who gave by Charter to
the Church of St. Chad at Ipswich, and to Walter, Bishop
of Coventry and his successors for ever, the privilege of
one die here. This grant was made some time between
1149 and 1159, and it was renewed in 1189 by Richard I.
to Hugh, then Bishop of Coventry. I am not aware if
there were any coins of Stephen issued under this grant ;
but in evidence of that of Richard I. there are coins
struck by the money er lOfiN, a specimen of which is
in the British Museum. It is undoubtedly of Class II.,
so I have transferred the name to that section in the list
of moneyers. Though the grant of Richard I. was " for
ever," it would appear that only one pair of dies was
despatched to Lichfield, and that the mint was active for
only a very short time. This is the only mint which was
not represented in the Colchester Find.

Lincoln. This was at all times a royal mint, and the
name of Lincoln occurs first on the coins of Aelfred and
from Eadgar to Edward I. From the evidence of the
coins it seems that there was a cessation of work at the
Lincoln mint during the later period of the short-cross
coinage, i.e., Class V. It is therefore possible that for
some reason not recorded, dies were not sent to that city
from about 1222 till the issue of the long-cross money in
1248.

London. It is scarcely necessary to make any remarks

16 Num. Chron., N.S. ii., p. 233.

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about this mint. Its origin dates from the introduction
of coinage in this country, and at least from Norman times
it has been the centre of our currency ; so that whenever
money was issued London has always provided its full share
of the output. We have not therefore, in the case of the
short-cross coinage, to account for any lacunae. In close
association with the London mint was that of Southwark,
which was closed about 1131, 17 but re-opened by Stephen.
As no coins are known of Southwark from that time till
the reign of Edward VI. we may conclude that the mint
was in abeyance from the accession of Henry II.

Northampton. This royal mint was the creation of
Henry I., and the date of its foundation was about 1126
1128. 18 It was in active operation from that time till the
beginning of the reign of Henry III., when it is recorded
tha,t in the 14th year (1229) of that king's reign the
townsmen accounted for sixty shillings out of the profits
of the coinage, and for thirty-six pounds arising from the
said profits, which had been unpaid for some years past.
The absence of coins of Class V. may therefore be
accounted for in a measure to the circumstance that the
mint, early in Henry's reign, not having paid its dues was
closed, and was not opened till the issue of the long-cross
money, when it became again active. The attribution of
some of the coins reading NO or NOR to this mint and
not to Norwich is doubtful ; but similarity of moneyers'
names is the only criterion for their classification. The
attributions made by Sir John Evans have not in
consequence been disturbed. The abbreviation of TH into
fi should be noticed, and also CR for OR in this and the
next mint.

17 Num. Chron., 1901, p. 286.

18 Num. Chron., 1901, p. 320.

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Norwich. This was a royal mint and was in active
operation from early Anglo-Saxon times, and there is a
nearly continuous series of coins till early in the reign of
Henry III. Domesday states that the bishop had the
privilege of one moneyer in Norwich, if he thought fit ;
but it is not known if he exercised this right. With
other mints it ceased work about 1222 ; but was again
active on the issue of the long-cross money until the end
of the reign.

Oxford. The earliest coins of Oxford are of the time
of Aelfred ; and though the series is continuous down to
the accession of Edward I. there appears to have been
intervals when operations were suspended. Mr. Andrew 19
shows that to all appearance there was an interval from
1103-1131, when such a suspension took place. This he
accounts for in a dispute between the citizens and the
king, in consequence of which the privilege of the mint
was rescinded. Throughout the reign of Henry II. coins
were struck at Oxford, and also in that of John and
Henry III. ; but as the money ers are few the issues were
small. An interval occurred in the reign of Kichard I.
as there are no coins of Class II., and this is the more
noticeable as in 1208 Oxford was one of the cities whose
officers of the mint were ordered to put in an appearance
at Westminster. We are therefore at a loss to account
for the suspension of the mint in this instance.

Rochester. The history of this mint is interesting.
Coins are supposed to have been struck at Kochester
under the Kentish kings, and that the mint was continued
by the kings of Wessex we have ample proof. By the
law of Aethelstan the king had two moneyers there and

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169

the bishop one. As no mention is made of this mint in
Domesday Mr. Andrew 20 concludes that when William 1.
created his half-brother, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of
Kent, and gave him the City of Kochester, the grant
carried with it the king's mint ; and when the earldom
was escheated in 1082 the right to two money ers fell into
abeyance. The bishop, however, still appears to have
exercised his right ; but even this ceased for some reason
in 1102, and the mint was not revived for o\er a century,
viz., in 1208. To explain this, Mr. Andrew supposes that
for some reason the Eochester mint was transferred to
Canterbury, and remained absorbed into the archiepisco-
pal mint until it was revived by John. Unfortunately
this is only conjecture. It is clear, however, that it was
revived by John, and was in operation for some time in
the reign of his successor, but as we have only one
moneyer who issues coins of Classes IV. and V. it could
not have been very active. It was not again revived.

8t. Edmundsbury. The evidence of the coins scarcely
coincides with the records of this mint. It was an
ecclesiastical one, having been granted to the abbot, and
is therefore not mentioned in Domesday. It had one
moneyer under William I. and II. and Henry I. ; but this
number was increased by Stephen and again reduced to
one by Henry II., who granted that it should have one
moneyer with all the privileges it had been accustomed
to exercise. Though this grant was confirmed by
Kichard I. we have no coins of that king nor of his father
after the introduction of the short-cross money. This is
one of the mints which were suppressed by Philip Aylmer.
At the inquisition of 1208 the money ers of this mint

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were summoned to Westminster, and the coinage again
re-commenced, and continued throughout the reign of
Henry III. and onwards to that of Edward III. St.
Edmundsbury stands third in the list of mints for the
number of coins of Class V. in this hoard. Simund the
moneyer appears to have been very active.

Shrewsbury. The coinage of this place was somewhat
intermittent. Established by Aethelstan we find the
mint in operation under several of the succeeding kings
to William II. During the reign of Henry I. it was
dormant, was renewed by Stephen and continued active
till the striking of the short-cross money ; and was only
resuscitated for a short time under Eichard during the
whole period over which that issue extended. It is
probable that on his accession Eichard renewed the
grant of the mint, of which however but little use was
made. In 1248 Henry III. revived it, together with
several others of the old mints, but it does not appear to
have had a long existence. It was again revived under
Charles I.

Wilton. Of this mint Mr. Andrew says 21 : " It was a
comparatively prolific Saxon mint from the time of
Edgar until the Conquest ; it was a royal mint and
seems to have usually employed three moneyers. This
condition prevailed under William I., until the time
came when Herman, Bishop of Sherborne and Wilton,
finally removed the joint see to Salisbury. It is evident
that coinciden tally with such removal the mint of Wilton
discontinued its constant output, and seems only to have
issued its money when some special demand for currency
would render such issue profitable." Throughout the

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reigns of Henry I. and Stephen the coins are not
numerous. When the new type was introduced by
Henry II. at the beginning of his reign, we meet with a
few moneyers, and this occurred again in 1186 ; but of
the short-cross coinage only two moneyers are known,
and thus the mint seems to have been in abeyance
throughout the remaining period of this issue, and only
to have resumed operations for a short period on the
striking of the long-cross money in 1248, when a writ
was issued for the election of officers of the mint in this
and in various other towns.

Winchester.-^- This mint dates back to early Saxon
times. Aethelstan established six moneyers there ; this
number was doubled by Aethelred II. ; but again reduced
to six by William I. ; and by Henry to one. At the
Inquisition held by Henry I. in 1126 Winchester
again received its six moneyers. This number does
not seem to have been maintained after Henry I. ; and in
1208 John granted to the city a moneyer and an
exchange. The number of moneyers, however, of which
we have coins of Class III. would rather prove that there
was more than one moneyer employed at Winchester in
that reign. For some reason not recorded, the operations
of the mint were suppressed about 1222, and not revived
till the issue of the long-cross money in 1248, when
Matthew of Paris states, " Henry III. also continued the
mint here." This mint appears to have been discontinued
after the death of Henry III.

Worcester. This mint dates from the reign of Aethelred
II., and was a royal one ; but as no mention is made of it
in the survey of 1086 it was probably farmed to the
citizens, as were also other royal mints. 22 It was working

22 Num. Chron., 1901, p. 474.

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during the reigns of Henry I., Stephen, and Henry II.,
and survived the introduction of the short-cross coinage ;
but apparently only for a short period as the only coins
known are of Class I. It was not again revived till the
reign of Charles I., and then only under exceptional con-
ditions.

York. For many centuries York was the monetary
centre of the north, and evidence is not wanting that it
may have existed even in Ancient British times. It is
scarcely necessary to say that it was an archiepiscopal
as well as a royal mint. At the Conquest, owing to the
resistance of its inhabitants, the city was disfranchised
and deprived of its mint privileges ; but William was not
strong enough to curtail the rights of the archbishops,
who continued to strike money and were entitled to
three moneyers. 23 These were reduced to two under
William II. and Henry I.; but in 1131-1135 a third
moneyer was appointed who was a royal moneyer, thus
resuscitating the king's mint in that city. The coinage is
henceforth continuous throughout the reigns of Stephen,
Henry II., and Kichard and John to the commencement of
that of Henry III. Like many others it ceased operations
about 1222, was revived on the issue of the long-cross
money, and continued with some intermission till the
reign of William III.

Rliuddlan. The attribution of coins to this mint has
always been considered uncertain, as there are no records
on which to rely. Yet the legends RVLA and RVLfiM sug-
gest no other place. Rhuddlan was a town of considerable
antiquity, and also of importance on account of its being
situate on the borders of England and Wales. It was

23 Num. Chron., 1901, p. 481.

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the scene of a great conflict in 795 between Offa of Mercia
and Caradoc, King of North Wales. A castle was built
there in 1015, which was restored by Henry II. in 1157.
Towards the end of the reign of Kichard I., Kanulph de
Meschines, Earl of Chester, was besieged there by a body
of Welsh; but was relieved by Koger de Lacy, his
lieutenant, just when the defence of the town seemed to
be no longer possible. When John invaded North Wales
in 1211 he advanced through Khuddlan ; and in the
following year the castle was attacked, but without effect,
by Prince Llewellyn, who however succeeded in capturing
it in 1214. From this time till 1277 the place constantly
changed hands, when it was finally wrested from the
Welsh by Edward I.

The coins attributed to Khuddlan are of Classes II.
and III., and therefore their issue just covers the period
when the town witnessed its two sieges, viz. at the close
of the reign of Kichard I. and in 1214. It is probable,
therefore, that if these coins were struck at Khuddlan
they are of the nature of a " money of necessity," i.e. were
struck for the soldiery and townspeople during those
sieges. What favours this view is that the dies used
must have been of local manufacture, and could never
have come from London, the design being very rude and
the letters misshapen, whilst the legends read 'sometimes
backwards. Taking these points into consideration I
think these coins with RVLfi and RVLfiH may with every
probability be attributed to Khuddlan ; and the absence
of any record of a grant of a mint to the place is due
to the exigencies under which the coins were struck.

Turning to the other coins in the hoard, which are not
purely English, the first to be noticed are the Irish.
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the bust of the king crowned and holding a sceptre
within a triangle on the obverse, and on the reverse a
crescent surmounted by a star (the badge of John, which
he had assumed on the death of Kichard) also within a
triangle. Unlike his English money John puts his own
name on the obverse, whilst on the reverse is that of the
moneyer and the mint. This coinage was introduced by
John in 1210, and the portrait of the king is borrowed
from that on his English coinage, which had first appeared
two years previously. The face is long and the beard
pointed, and formed of downward straight lines; he
wears a crown, and the hair on each side of his head is
always arranged in two curls, each enclosing a pellet.
There was absolutely no change in the portrait throughout
the reign, and it is on account of this fixity of type in
his Irish coinage that we have presumed that also no
change occurred in the portrait on the English coinage.
The only mints represented in the hoard are Dublin and
Limerick, no specimen of Waterford being present;
and the only money ers are Eobert and Willelm (Dublin)
and Willelm (Limerick). It is not surprising that there
were no Irish coins of Henry III. in the hoard, as they
are only of the long-cross type, of which no English
specimens were met with also.

The Scottish coins are of William the Lion and
Alexander II., and are all pennies of the short-cross type,
which was adopted in Scotland in 1195, or nine years
after its introduction into England. The coins of
William the Lion are of the Pertli and Koxburgh mints ;
but by far the greater number are without the mint
name. Those of Alexander II. are of Koxburgh only, and
vary only in the head being crowned or not crowned.
They are of the early type of his reign.

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The foreign coins are all deniers esterlins of the Low
Countries and Northern Germany, and are mainly of the
short-cross type, borrowed from the English money. In
fact, on many the portrait of John is closely copied, and
on one piece of Dortmund, temp. Frederick II., a com-
bination of the types of the English and Irish money is
shown, having the head within a triangle on the obverse
and a short double cross within a triangle on the reverse.
The presence of so many of these foreign deniers may be
accounted for in the circumstance that Colchester, even
at that time, was noted for its woollen manufactures,
which no doubt attracted a considerable number of
foreigners, especially Flemish, who brought these coins
with them.

It now only remains to account in some way for the
burial of so large a hoard. If it could be shown that
the hoard had been concealed early in the reign of Henry
III., a cause would be found in the fact that, towards the
end of the reign of John, Colchester fell into the hands
of foreigners, who had come over to assist the barons, and
was held by Prince Louis, son of Philip II., king of
France, soon after the accession of Henry III. The barons
submitted to their " new king," and the castle was again
taken and Prince Louis was expelled from the kingdom.
The sudden departure of this Prince would have
accounted for the concealment of such a large hoard.
But the coins themselves show that the burial could
not have taken place till very shortly before 1248, or
about that date, for the names of all the moneyers who
coined Class V. at London and Canterbury are met
with, and even the latest struck pieces show that they
had been for some time in circulation. We must therefore
look for some event which occurred about J 248. It was at

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this time, 1247, that Kichard, Earl of Cornwall, son of
John, was, by authority of the Pope, whose demands he
had secretly and wisely satisfied, raising large sums for
himself from those who wished to be absolved from their
vow of proceeding on the crusade; but there is no
evidence that Earl Eichard was at this time connected in
any special manner with the town of Colchester. Another
reason must therefore be sought for, and I would suggest
that this hoard was one of the effects of the issue of the
long-cross coinage. Colchester had been a mint of con-
siderable importance down to the end of the reign of
Henry I. ; in fact, it dates back from Roman times. It
was the ancient Camulodunum, and it was there and
in London that the Romans struck their coins when in
Britain. Though the mint was in abeyance the town of
Colchester was a centre of commercial activity, and it
could well have been selected as one of the places for
the distribution of the new long-cross coinage and the
withdrawal from circulation of the old short-cross one.
This would, moreover, not only account for the entire
absence of any long-cross coins, as well as for the presence
of so many Irish and Scottish pieces, but also for the
somewhat unusual number of foreign denier s, nearly all
of which are of the short-cross type. Every coin in
circulation in the district would have to be brought into
the exchange ; for from that date only the new coins would
be accepted. The nature of the vessel in which the coins
were placed points to the circumstance of a theft ; and
one might further conjecture that the coins were stolen
whilst the exchange was proceeding, concealed and not
recovered till they were unearthed in July last. I am
inclined to think that the Eccles hoard was buried under
like circumstances.

H. A. GEUEBER.

VI.

TWO COINS RELATING TO THE BUWAYHID

AND 'OKAYLID DYNASTIES OF

MESOPOTAMIA AND PERSIA.

TOWARDS the close of the year 1900, my official duties
took me to Bombay, where I obtained the two silver coins
which form the subject of this note. Being shortly after-
wards compelled to return up-country, I was precluded,
by want of leisure and lack of the authorities necessary
for reference, from making anything like a complete
identification of the coins or a satisfactory transcription of
their legends. In 1902 I came home on long leave, and
have been able to devote the necessary time to a careful
examination of the pieces and to consultation with
recognised authorities on the subject. Thanks to the
kind assistance of Dr. Codrington and Mr. Rapson, I
have succeeded in fixing the attribution of the coins, and
in transcribing more or less completely the obscure but
very interesting legends which they bear.

The result has been the discovery of two unedited
coins, which will, I believe, supply important supple-
mentary data for the history of a confusing and little-
known period. The exact significance to be attached to
this fresh information must be admitted to be doubtful
at any rate, until it has been dealt with by more
competent scholars than myself. I have ventured, how-
ever, to offer a tentative explanation of these new data in

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the hope that it may go at least some way to elucidate
the matter.

The first coin is to be assigned to the Buwayhid
dynasty, and appears to have been issued by 'Imad al
Din Abu Kalinjar Marzban in 428 H. at the mint
Medinat al Salam. Its legends, which are in characters
of an extremely " caligraphic " type, run as follows :

Obverse : area

Margin : *- *^?.^ f*; 4 L-^-O & +~*

Eeverse : area

Margin:

yj^ijl l/jj,

The characters at the end of the third and fourth lines
of the legend on the reverse area (viz. : ^) have not been
accounted for. Weight, about 59J grains. Diameter y
slightly over 1-1 inches.

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The second com belongs to the 'O nay lid ruler,
Mu'tamid al Daulah, and was struck at 'Akbara in
428 H. The legends, which are in characters similar to
those of the first coin, read as follows :

Obverse:

area

Inner margin- \\*6* +*^\ \A*

margn ^?. &&* j ^ e/ J
(Koran, xxx., 3-4) d

The inner margin is much worn, and is broken into in
one place and corroded in another. Dr. Codrington,
however, found sufficient lettering to give a clue to the
text.

Reverse: area ^jj

<*U\ JyWj

411

Inner margin. This is divided into four spaces,
separated by conventional scrolls.
Starting from the top leftwards, I
believe the spaces to contain the
following: (1) (J\ (Jl, i.e.,

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King of Kings; (2)
(3) (?) aSjjM J^U, *X Jalal al
Dawlah ; (4) (?) ^*U* ^\, i.e., Abu
Tahir (the name of Jalal al Dawlah).
The words in this margin are not easily deciphered, and
were not read by Dr. Codrington. Further study of the
coin, however, subsequent to his examination, has led me
to think the above readings substantially correct. On a
dirhem of Abu Sinan Gharib Seyf ul Daulah (an ally and
vassal of Jalal al Daulah) we find the name Jb!\* *>\
and the titles sll3UU and cjLLJ*, (not, be it noted, as
yet (^LJ\ Lil/c). This coin was struck at 'Akbara in
422 H. Mu'tamid, also a nominal vassal of Jalal,
appears to have occupied 'Akbara at a later date, and to
have acknowledged the supremacy of the Buwayhid on
his coins in the same way as Abu Sinan had done.

Outer margin. Too worn and broken to be deciphered.
The letters visible suggest a Koranic
text, very possibly that found on
the reverse margin of the Buwayhid
coin.

Weight^ 85 grains. Diameter, slightly over 1 1 inches.
In connection with these legends, the following points
are noteworthy : (1) the date and mint of the Buwayhid
piece ; (2) the designation of the Abu Kalinjar as Shah-
in-Shah; (3) the title \^\ ^UaL* on the obverse of
the Okaylid piece ; (4) the titles on the inner margin of
the reverse of the same. A remarkable coincidence is
the fact that both coins not only belong to the reign of
the Khaliph Al Kaim bi-amri-allah (422-467 H.), but
also bear exactly the same date 428 H. The one
specimen of Mu'tamid's coinage in the British Museum
lacks a date, but bears the name of the preceding

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Khaliph, Al Kadir, as also that of Baha al Daulah the
Buwayhid, and must therefore be dated between 388 H.
and 4U3 H. The Museum has no specimen representing
'Imad al Din.

For the better comprehension of the possible signifi-
cance of the legends on these two coins a brief sketch of
the relations between the 'Okaylid and Buwayhid houses
is necessary. The founder of the latter family was
"the chief of a war-like clan of the highlanders of
Daylam" (S. Lane-Poole, "Mahomedan Dynasties"),
who was reputed a descendant of the ancient kings of
Persia. On the break-up of the Abbasid empire, which
ensued in the 9th century A.D., the Samanid power,
founded by the Persian noble Saman, emerged pre-
eminent, but like that of most oriental dynasties
remained unchallenged for little more than a generation.
The Ziyarid prince, Mardawij, rendered himself inde-
pendent of the Samanids and appropriated a considerable
portion of their western territories, notably Ispahan and
Hamadhan. To him Buwayh, renouncing his allegiance
to the Samanids, attached himself and obtained the
government of Karaj. The son of Buwayh, 'Imad al
Daulah Abu'l Hassan 'Ali, extended the territorial
possessions of his family by the seizure of Ispahan and
other districts on the Persian borders. With the help of
his two brothers, Mu'izz al Daulah and Kukn al Daulah,
'Ali next took Shiraz, and the three then working
westward entered Baghdad in 334 H., and reduced the
Khaliph to complete political dependence. Though them-
selves shiahs, the Buwayhids were content to allow the
head of the Mahomedan world to retain a religious
supremacy, provided that they secured for themselves
the administration of his temporal authority and the

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actual occupation of his territorial dominions. Of the
familiesof the elder brothers, though to Mu'izz the Khaliph
had granted the rank of Amir al Umara, and though 'AH
appears to have been the leading spirit in the confederacy,
little or nothing is heard in subsequent generations.
From Kukn al Daulah, the youngest, the family branched
off in several lines, each apparently inheriting as its own
some particular portion of the Khaliph's dominions, and
each striving to obtain as much more as the weakness of
the parallel branches and its own strength would permit.
The grandson of Eukn al Daulah was Baha al Daulah,
who united under his sway the provinces of Kirman,
'Irak, Ahwaz and Ears. The eldest son of Baha was
Sultan al Daulah, who became the father of 'Imad al Din
Abu Kalinjar Marzban. The youngest son of Baha was
named Jalal al Daulah. The latter was proclaimed in
416 H. successor to his brother Musharrif, the deceased
prince of 'Irak. Jalal, however, was a weak man, and the
country was in so disturbed a state that he did not
actually occupy his capital, Baghdad, till 418 H. In
the meantime his nephew, Imad al Din, who in 415 H.
had become ruler of Ears, had been strengthening his
own position, so that in 419 H. he was able to annex
Kirman. 'Imad appears to have had ambitions, and the
fact that he was the son of Jalal's eldest brother no
doubt gave him in his own eyes a superior claim to
what had belonged to his grandfather, Baha al Daulah,
and in part to his father. Moreover, 'Irak was, so to say,
the metropolitan province of the empire, and its possession
carried with it the control of the Khaliph, and at least a
nominal supremacy over his dominions. Given, then,
weakness in the de facto ruler Jalal, it was only to be
expected that 'Imad would advance pretensions to his

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place and power, and would endeavour to enforce them
when and as opportunity offered.

The situation, however, is complicated by the inter-
vention of a third party, the 'Okay lid prince Mu'tamid al
Daulah Kirwash (391-442 H.). The Banu 'Okayl was a
branch of an important Arab clan that had emigrated
from Arabia and settled in Bahrayn. Being driven
thence they descended upon 'Irak and Mesopotamia,
where they became, in the 4th century (H.), the subjects
of the Hamdanid princes. This dynasty had acquired
considerable territories in Syria and Mesopotamia, their
two chief seats being Mosil and Aleppo, where, under the
brothers Nasir al Daulah and Seif al Daulah, their
prestige reached its acme. Success naturally brought
the Hamdanids into collision with the rising power of the
Buwayhids. In 367 H. 'Adud al Daulah, the Buwayhid
ruler of Fars and Kirman, took Mosil and drove the
Hamdanid Abu Taghlib from Mesopotamia. The fall
of the Hamdanids paved the way for the rise of the
'Okaylid chief Abu-1-Dhawwad Mohammad, who, after a
perfidious alliance with the brothers of Abu Taghlib,
deserted them and seized Mosil for himself. Abu-1-
Dhawwad hastened to acknowledge the supremacy of
the Buwayhid sovereign Baha al Daulah, who despatched
a representative to Mosil. His submission, whether
genuine or not, availed the 'Okaylid .little, for in 381
Baha, evidently unwilling to permit the erection of a
power so nearly independent in such close proximity,
sent an army against Mosil and captured it. In 386 H.
the chieftainship of the 'Okaylids passed to Mukallad,
who regained Mosil, and, on condition of paying tribute
and acknowledging his supremacy, was confirmed in
possession by Baha al Daulah, who was occupied in

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defending himself against his brother Samsam. Mukallad
was assassinated in 391 H. by his Turkish guards, and was
succeeded by Mu'tamid al Daulah Kirwash.

Mu'tamid entered upon an inheritance by no means
peaceful. Not only had he to protect himself against
the Buwayhids, who appear to have been always anxious
to regain direct possession of Mosil, but in addition he
was compelled to meet the rivalry of a hostile branch
of his own family, at the head of which was Abu Sinan
Gharib. In 411 H. the latter, in combination with Nur
al Daulah Dubays, a neighbouring chief, and aided
(presumably with Buwayhid connivance) by troops from
Baghdad, attacked and captured Mu'tamid. Gharib
indeed released his kinsman, but the allies seized and
held the city of Takrit. In 417 H. Mu'tamid's own brother,
Badran, joined another confederacy against him. This
was headed by two other 'Okaylids, and Mu'tamid was
only saved by the assistance of his former foe Gharib.
An indecisive battle, followed by a theatrical recon-
ciliation of the chief contending parties, closed the
episode.

It was shortly after these events that Jalal al Daulah,
the Buwayhid, came to Baghdad; for his times and
circumstances he was singularly ill-suited, yet singularly
long-lived. Unable to compel even the Khaliph to his
will, he could not control his own janissaries, much
less intervene with effect in the welter of rivalries and
conflicts around him. We find him struggling with Nur
al Daulah Dubays, the Asadi chief, in 420 H., and with
the 'Okaylid Kafia' in 421 H. The latter was in command
of the town of Takrit, a place much desired by his
cousin, Abu Sinan Gharib. Eafia' allied himself with
Mu'tamid, and Gharib sought the help of the Buwayhid

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lord paramount. The two 'Okaylids defeated Jalal and
Gharib, and consequently the ownership of Takrit
remained unchanged. In 423 H. the Turkish guards of
Jalal rose and drove him out of Baghdad. He fled to
'Akbara, then in possession of Gharib, and after a sojourn
of 43 days was permitted to return to his capital. In
425 H. his powerful vassal and protector Gharib died,
and in 427 H. another outbreak again forced the luckless
Jalal to leave Baghdad. This time he sought refuge
with Gharib's cousin Kafia' at Takrit. Kafia' dying
later in the year, Jalal, on the receipt of 80,000 dinars,
confirmed his nephew Khamis in the succession. The
deaths of Kafia' and Gharib left the field clear for
Mu'tamid Kirwash. He appears to have resolved to
recover the towns held by the rival branch of his house,
and to do this if possible without prejudice to his loyalty
to the Bu way hid overlord. Probably he looked on
Jalal as likely to become a useful tool, and hoped to
establish an influence with him similar to that enjoyed
by Abu Sinan Gharib. That he was successful in his
attempt on 'Akbara is shown by our coin, which also
proves his nominal loyalty to Jalal al Daulah. Takrit,
however, was another matter ; here Jalal appears to have
been pledged to support Khamis, and when Mu'tamid
made his attack he was repelled by the combined forces
of Jalal and Khamis.

We can also discern other reasons inducing Mu'tamid
not to break with Jalal al Daulah. During this period
Imad al Din Abu Kalinjar would seem to have been
extending and consolidating his power in the East. He
had, however, taken no part in Western affairs. But by
423 H. he appears to have come to the conclusion that
his increased power required higher titles of dignity,

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and accordingly he demanded from the Khaliph a grant
of the laqab, Sultan al 'Azam, Malik al Umara, a title
reserved for the Khaliph himself. Al Kaim, the new
Khaliph, of course refused this extravagant request, but
granted the title of Malik al Daulah. Hitherto the career
of 'Imad al Din between this event and his accession to
the throne of 'Irak on the death of Jalal in 435 has been
wrapped in obscurity. The discovery, however, of the
first of the two coins dealt with in this article now
enables us to hazard conjectures at any rate for one year
of this period. It is dated 428 H. and purports to have
been minted at Medinat al Sal am, i.e., Baghdad, the capital
of the empire. Hence, judging from the general politi-
cal conditions and from the known incapacity of Jalal al
Daulah, we may suppose that, upon the second expulsion
of the latter from Baghdad in 427 H., 'Imad al Din deter-
mined to assert his own claims to the headship of the
Buwayhid family and to the control of the Khaliph's
dominions. Whether he actually came in person to
Baghdad and there asserted his pretensions cannot be
definitely stated, but from the data supplied by the
coin under reference we may infer that in token of his
supremacy he was at least able to have coins minted at
Baghdad and to assume the title of Shahin-Shah. This
honour was one that, perhaps in virtue of their reputed
descent from the Great Kings of ancient Persia, com-
mended itself to the Buwayhids in a peculiar degree.
Nevertheless it was by its very nature not a title that
each and every ruling prince in that family could
assume as a matter of course. Its assumption implied
either a right or a challenge. The right belonged to
the just head of the house : the challenge might issue
from such kinsman, as conceived his right superior to

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that of the de facto chief, or relied for his justification
upon the extent and quality of his power and resources.
The relationship between the various sections of the
Buwayhid family seems not very unlike that which
connected the different branches of the Talpur Mirs of
Sind in the 18th and 19th centuries A.D. Just as each
Talpur chief, whether at Khairpur or Mirpur Khas,
maintained his own petty court, and worked, fought
and intrigued for his own advantage, yet in theory and
occasionaliy in the larger questions of practical politics
admitted the ascendancy of the Hyderabad ruler, the
Mirunjo Mir, so among the Buwayhids the ruler of 'Irak
appears to have been generally the recognised head of
the family, both as controller of the capital and of the
Khaliph, and as usually the representative of the senior
branch of the stock. Hence the assumption of the title
Shahin-Shah by a Buwayhid who was not a ruler of
'Irak could only; mean that the pretender disputed the
right of the de facto holder to it, and intended sooner or
later to enforce his own claims to the headship.

The attitude of Mu'tamid Kirwash towards 'Imad al
Din would not be difficult to guess. It was little to his
interest that an ambitious and capable prince, backed by
the power of possibly all Persia, should replace the
feckless Jalal in Baghdad. Consequently we should
expect that, at least until the might of 'Imad al Din
proved insuperable, Mu'tamid would favour and support
Jalal al Daulah. The inscriptions on the second of our
two coins appear to confirm this expectation. At the
very time that 'Imad al Din was challenging Jalal al
Daulah for the supremacy and had perhaps gained a
temporary hold of his capital, we find Mu'tamid vindicat-
ing in his coinage the right of Jalal to the supreme title,

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and acknowledging him as paramount, with no reference
whatever to the pretender. For once the claims of interest
coincided with the obligations of duty, and in such a
case Mu'tamid was not the man to hold back. Indeed
his loyalty appears almost excessive, for, combined with
the title Shahin-Shah, occurs on this same coin the
parallel designation Malik al Maluk, which in 429 H.
Jalal was to beg from the Khaliph and almost to be
refused. Mu'tamid, aware probably in 428 H. of Jalal's
desire for this dignity, seemingly thought that he might
anticipate the Khaliph's sanction. In so doing he erred,
for Al Kaim (who quite possibly preferred 'Imad al Din
to Jalal al Daulah on the ground that a strong master is
better than a foolish one) at first refused Jalal's request,
and eventually referred the case to a committee of jurists
who after much dispute decided in favour of the grant.
There is little doubt too that Mu'tamid was playing for
his own hand. He recovered 'Akbara and also obtained
for himself the new and unheard-of title " Sultan al
Umara " (presumably the Khaliph wished to conciliate
the strong men on both sides) ; and, in order perhaps not
to arouse the suspicion and jealousy of Jalal, he seems to
have sought to compensate on his coins for his own
increased dignity by conferring brevet rank, so to say, on
his overlord.

Whether Mu'tamid was called upon to attest his some-
what clamant loyalty by deeds, and whether 'Imad al Din
and Jalal al Daulah settled their quarrel by an appeal to
arms, we cannot say. The veil of history drops and does
not lift again, so far as Abu Kalinjar is concerned, until
the death of Jalal in 435 H. and 'Imad's own accession to
the throne which he had challenged some seven years
earlier. That he had not been successful in that

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challenge (as we must apparently infer was the case) may
very probably have been due to the fact that it was
premature, and that disturbances in his own dominions
prevented him from reaping more permanent benefits
from the temporary advantage which he appears to have
gained.

[For the main facts of the above sketch I am indebted
to an article by Mr. H. C. Kay on the Banu 'Okayl in the
Journal of the Koyal Asiatic Society of Great Britain,
Oct. 1886, vol. xviii., part iv., and to Mr. S. Lane-Poole's
" Mahomedan Dynasties." The statement re the request
of 'Imad al Din for a new title in 423 is due to a note
furnished by Mr. Amedroz through Dr. Codrington. I
am specially indebted to the latter for help with the
inscriptions.]

J. G. COVEKNTON.

NOTICES OF EECENT NUMISMATIC PUBLICATIONS.

Medaillen der italieniscJien Renaissance. Von Cornelius von
Fabriczy. Mit 181 Abbildungen. (Monographien des
Kunstgewerbes IX.). Seemann, Leipzig, [1903].

Herr von Fabriczy's work is of considerably more im-
portance to the study of Italian medals than would
naturally be expected of a volume of little more than
100 pages dealing in a popular way with the medallic art
of Italy during the whole of the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries. It is difficult to conceive how the origin and
development of the art during this period could have been
more clearly and effectively stated in a way intelligible to
the person of artistic tastes who is without special training
in numismatics. But the monograph is more than such
a statement. It gathers up in a convenient form a good
deal of new material, discovered since the appearance
of Heiss and Friedlander's works, but scattered in various
periodicals which, it is to be feared, seldom meet the eye of
numismatists, at least in this country. I propose here to
indicate some of the more important and interesting features
of Herr von Fabriczy's work. We may pass over the intro-
ductory portion, which of course owes much to the well-
known article by von Schlosser in the Vienna Jahrbuch on
the oldest medals and the antique. Under Pisanello, we
meet with Venturi's attribution to this artist of the remark-
able plaques with the portrait of Leone Battista Alberti ; of
these, the author accepts the attribution to Pisanello only
for the specimen in the Louvre, reserving his reasons for
rejecting the others. The portrait is so fine that we would
gladly accept its attribution to the greatest of all medallists ;
but it will be hard to prove that its resemblance in style to
the signed medals is more than superficial. The whole feeling
of the piece, and the modelling of the features, are surely
different from anything else known to be by Pisanello ; it is
the work of a sculptor rather than of a medallist. But it
will be interesting to see the author's views developed at

NOTICES OF RECENT NUMISMATIC PUBLICATIONS. 191

greater length. The medallist who generally ranks next to
Pisanello, Matteo de' Fasti, fares rather ill at Herr von
Fabriczy's hands. True, he is a bad second to Pisanello,
but the man who could produce the medals of Guarino
and of Isotta da Kimini, and the view of the Castle of
Rimini on the reverse of the medal of Sigismondo
Malatesta, is a genius of high order. The Castle of Rimini
is without doubt the finest representation of any architec-
tural subject no easy task in the whole range of medallic
art, and it is unfortunate that it is omitted from the
illustrations in this volume. Matteo de' Pasti is however
the only important artist in whose case we feel that the
writer's appreciation is anything but just, although perhaps
he is inclined to overrate the merits of Cristoforo di Geremia's
Alfonso I. of Naples. Sperandio meets with most appropriate
criticism. By a quaint misprint he is described (p. 42) as
"der furchtbarste der Quattrocento-medailleure." At first
sight, the epithet seems, in the sense of Setvoraros, most
admirably to describe this exceedingly clever artist, with
his showy, unrefined, and not over-scrupulous artistic
method. It is disappointing to have to conclude that it is
but a misprint for " fruchtbarste." In the matter of mis-
prints we may note that on p. 43 Marescotti is twice called
Marescalco. So much for questions of general criticism. Of
new or comparatively new attributions, some are due to the
author himself. One of the most plausible is that of the
Magdalena Mantuana medal and others to L'Antico. Bode
has attributed to Gian Cristoforo Romano the medals of
Alfonso d'Este, his wife Lucrezia Borgia, and a lady named
Jacopa Correggia. The first and the third of these attribu-
tions are much less attractive than the second. To the
same artist the writer attributes the medal of the young
Cardinal Domenico Grimani with the figures of Theology
and Philosophy, hitherto assigned to Gambello. Another
plausible attribution gives the medals of Tomaso Rangone to
Alessandro Vittoria. The coronation medal of Pope Alex-
ander VI., classed by Friedlander with the works of
Caradosso, is assigned with greater probability to Francia*
The interesting medal of Federigo Montefeltre, by Paolo da
Ragusa, is shown to belong to about 1450. It represents
him with his nose still unbroken. The medal of Alfonso of
Calabria is taken away from Guazzalotti and given to
Bertoldo di Giovanni, to whom Bode had already attributed
the Pazzi and other medals. Antonio Pollajuolo is thus
erased from the list of known Italian medallists, and the
same fate befalls Michelozzo. On the other hand, we are

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provided with a new medallist in the sculptor Adriano
Fiorentino, a pupil of Bertoldo. To him are assigned the
medal of Degenhart Pfeffinger, that of the crown prince
Ferdinand, afterwards Ferdinand II., of Naples, with a w
on the hat, the Urania medal of Grioviano Pontano, a medal
of Cardinal Eaffael Kiario, and the well-known medals of
Elisabetta Montefeltre, Duchess of Urbino, and of Emilia
Pio. There is documentary evidence that he made the last
two medals in 1495; the other attributions are based on
stylistic grounds.

We have said enough to show that no one interested
in Italian medals can afford to neglect Herr von Fabriczy's
book. The process illustrations are plentiful, and in most
cases good of their kind; but it is unfortunate that the
publishers should not have found it possible to make them
all on the same scale as the originals. It is not always
justifiable to enlarge coins and medals ; but in no case can
their reduction be defended, except on the ground of
economy.

G. F. HILL.

MISCELLANEA.

ANCIENT BRITISH COINS OF YERULAMIUM AND CUNOBELINUS.
Mr. William Ransom, F.S.A., possesses two ancient British
coins in copper recently found in the neighbourhood of
Sandy, Bedfordshire.

The first is of Yerulamium, of the type of Evans, PI.
XIII., 8, and XXL, 8.

Obv. Convex. Wide-spread beardless head in profile to
the right, in front AAAAAAA' tne wn l e
within a beaded circle.

Rev. Concave. Seated figure to the left, much as on
PI. XXL, 8, but the exergue not visible.

M 24J grains.

This coin is of much interest as having the obverse
perfectly preserved. Several specimens of the type are
already known, but though the VER in the exergue of the
reverse proved them to have been issued from the mint of
Verulamium, the legend on the obverse was shrouded in
mystery. And now that we have this well-preserved
specimen, as to the legend, on which there is no room for

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doubt, our knowledge can hardly be said to be increased.
What seems to be a legend is in fact a meaningless zigzag,
consisting of seven and a half repetitions of the letter V or
of an /y without the bar. The question arises whether,
after all, this is an original coin of Verulamium or a
somewhat barbarous reproduction of one. In my collec-
tion is a specimen showing the beaded circle in front of the
upper part of the face, but with no legend whatever inside
the circle. On another example in the same collection there
are traces of a legend, the letters of which seem to vary, and
not to present the unbroken uniformity exhibited on the
coin now described. We must wait for further discoveries
before the question as to the original legend can be regarded
as definitely solved.

The second coin is of Cunobelinus.

Obv. Convex. CA(MV). An ear of bearded corn.
Rev. Concave. (C)V(NO). Horse prancing to the left.

M 72| grains.

A specimen of this type is engraved in Evans, PI. XIII., 4.
The coin belongs to a class of which several examples are
known. Like the gold coins of Cunobelinus, they usually
have the horse turned to the right instead of to the left.
They seem to be ancient imitations of the gold coins and not
legitimately to belong to the copper coinage, which consisted
of pieces both smaller and lighter. Taylor Combe indeed
mentions one of these pieces as having been formerly gilt and
with the gold still adhering in places. J. E.

AN UNPUBLISHED, OR UNIQUE HALF-CROWN OF CHARLES I.
FROM THE EXETER MINT. It is with pleasure that I can
report to the Numismatic Society the existence of one more
variety of the beautiful and very rare Truncheon half-crown
of Charles I., from the Exeter mint; which I believe is
unique in its variety.

The king is here represented with a three-quarter face,
and with a truncheon in his right hand, and riding on a
horse which is curvetting or capering, but not over arms
as in Hawkins No. 1 ; and inasmuch as he is holding in his
right hand a truncheon or baton, instead of a sword, it differs
from the horse-capering specimens of Hawkins, Nos. 2 and 3
of his list, and 488 of Plate XLI. The significance
apparently intended by the peculiarities of "this device
would seem to be that the king is holding out the baton of

194 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

sovereignty, without trampling triumphantly over hostile
arms. The legend also differs slightly from the other
known Truncheon varieties and reads Obv. CAROLVS D :
G : MAG BRIT - FRAN - ET HIB REX ; and Rev. CHRISTO f
AVSPICE T REG NO (observe the marks which divide the
words of the legend, and which differ from those on other
Truncheon half-crowns). The reverse type is a shield of the
parallelogram or square-oval shape characteristic of Exeter
coins, and has the letters C R at its sides, with a lis over
its top. The mint mark on both obverse and reverse is a rose
that on the obverse being much smaller than the one on the
reverse and the rose is not accompanied with pellets on its
sides. It is probable that this coin was struck as a pattern, but
in the striking the die seems to have been cracked, as a small
flaw appears near one of the horse's legs, and this no doubt
stopped its issue. The coin here described is in my
collection, and is in very fine condition, and weighs just
under 10 dwts.

The late Mr. J. B. Bergne in 1849 (Num. Chron., vol. xii.,
page 63) called attention to two unpublished Exeter half-
crowns of Charles I. with Truncheon, which are in the British
Museum, and remarked that they were probably unique
varieties. As regards one of them, which has the date, 1644,
at the end of legend, instead of 1642, which is usually in a
small compartment below the shield on the Truncheon type
he was mistaken in thinking it was unique, for there is another
specimen with this type and date, 1644, in my collection,
which was formerly in the Marsham and Montagu collections.

JONATHAN RASH LEIGH.

THE MUGHAL MINTS IN INDIA. In his interesting paper
on "Some Coins of the Mughal Emperors" (Num. Chron.,
1902, pp. 275 et seq.), Mr. M. Longworth Dames gives a list
of mints added since the publication of the British Museum
Catalogue. There are some errors and omissions in this list
which appear worthy of note, as the list is the latest
published.

Page 278. Etawa should be struck out under Farrukh
Siyar, and 'Azimabad under Ahmad Shah, as
these mints were published in the B. M. C.
Of the mints added by Mr. Dames from the coins in his
paper the following have been already published :

Aurangzeb . . . Katak (in copper, Lahore Museum).
Bahadur Shah . . Ahmadabad (Dr. Taylor, Coins of

MISCELLANEA.

195

Ahmaddbad,J.Tl.A..S.(Bomba,y Branch),

vol. xx.).
Jahandar .... Etawa (Lucknow Museum, Eeport

1901-2).
Farrukh Siyar . . Ahmadabad (Dr. Taylor's paper),

Baraili (Lahore Museum).

The following mints published since the B. M. C. was
issued should be added.

Akbar .

Jahangir .
Shah Jahan

Aurangzeb

Jahandar

Rafi-ud-darjat

Shah Jahan II. .
Muhammad Shah
Ahmad Shah .
Alamgir II. .

Shah Alam

Akbar II.

Satgaon (doubtful), Kashmir, Manik-
pur , Nagar, Khairpur, Iqlim Jalal abad ,
Chatarkot, Ahmadnagar, Salemgarh-
Ajtnlr.

Udaipur, Narnol, Dogam, and Urdu
dar rah i Dakhin.

Ajmir, Udaipur, Aurangnagar, Patan
Deo, Zafarabad, Zafarnagar, and
Fathpur.

Bairata, Malikanagar, and Hafizabad.
Aurangabad, Patna and Kabul.
Dr. Taylor has pointed out that
Zmat-ul-bilad is the title of Ahmada-
bad.

Ahmadabad.

Ujain, Bhakhar, and Kabul.
Ahmadabad and Peshawar.
Ahmadabad, Jaipur and Mah Indar-
pur.

Islamabad, Elichpur, Baroda, Bindra-
ban, Bhakhar, Chachrauli, Kachrauli,
Kanan, Gangpur and Kharpur.
Gwaliar.

Mr. Dames also repeats the late Mr. C. J. Rodger's reading
of Dar-ul-barat Kandi. I have not seen the coin, but
imagine it must read Dar-ul-barkat Nagpur.

There are several inaccuracies in the map, which appeal-
worth correcting. Audh (Ajodhya) is on the south, not the
north bank of the Ghagra. Dogam is east, not west of
Bahraich. Bairat should be near Alwar, not north of
Saharanpur. Qamarnagar is surely Karnul in South India,
not Karnal in the Punjab.

Regarding the identifications on pp. 281-2, I would point
out that Akbarpur in the Fyzabad district of Oudh has
some claim to be taken as the mint town. I have a rupee

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of Shah Alam II. of the Islamabad mint on which Mathura
also occurs. This does not prove that the Islamabad of the
other coins was also Mathura, but may be considered an
argument in its favour. In the Eeport of the Lucknow
Museum for 1900-1901 it was pointed out that Mustafabad
is probably Rampur, the chief town in the native state in
Rohilkhand. The dates on the coins of this mint, of which
I have seen several, all belong to the period when the
Rohillas were in power.

Mr. Dames does not show the position of Mominabad on
the map, but I have a rupee of Shah Alam with the mint
name Mominabad-Bindraban, though some writers have
taken Mominabad in the Deccan as the mint-town. There
will be several additions to be made in the lists of Mughal
mints when the catalogue of the Lucknow Museum is
complete, and there are other novelties in the collection of
Mr. H. Nelson Wright and in my own.

R. BURN.

< Oirons. JerJTfolM PI. IV.

CLASS II.

(1189-1208)

CLASS m.

(1208 12)6

CLASS IV.

(1216-1222)

CLASS V.

(1222-1248)

SHORT-CROSS PENNIES (HENRY H-ffl)

VII.
NOTES ON SOME PHOCIAN OBOL&

(See Plate V.) .

SOME time ago I acquired a number of these small coins*
which came, I was informed, from a recent find iti
Central Greece, in company with other obols and triobols
of Phocis and many Athenian tetradfachms of the
" refined archaic " type, i.e. of the period B.C. 525-430.
Several of the obols now in my possession do not appear
to be represented in our National Collection, and it may
therefore be of interest to record them, with a few notes
on their individual peculiarities, which consist not of
any actual novelty in the types but of the wide diversity
of their treatment and of the variations exhibited in both
style and inscription.

No. I.B.C. 550-480 (early),

Oiv. Bull's head facing, of archaic style ; the horns
straight ; forelock shown by circles.

Rev. Forepart of boar to r. both forelegs shown, one
extended, the other bent ; in incuse square.

M. Obol. Wt. 13 grs. [PI. V., 1.]

No. 2.

Obv. Similar, but that the horns are shorter.
Rev. Same.

M. Obol. Wt. 14-5 grs. [PI. V., 2.]

(The reverses of Nos. 1 and 2 are from the same die.)

VOL. III., SERIES IV. P

198 NUMISMATIC CHKONICLE.

No coins of the same early style appear to have been
noticed* They are carelessly struck, of irregular shape
and uninscribed, and the treatment of both obverse and
reverse shows all the signs of an early period of art.
This is especially noticeable on the reverse, which has a
boar of a thin type that differs materially from the
thickset, sturdy animal that took its place and is
found on all later issues : it is also very conventional
in treatment and so arranged as to fill the entire
field, showing the "horror vacui" that characterises
early art.

These coins are, of course, later than those of the
first known issue of B,C. 600-550, which have the bull's
head with curved horns and the rough incuse reverse.
Equally they should precede the inscribed coins with
the bull's head of strong massive style and the reverse
type of the thickset boar which in the British Museum
Catalogue, Phocis, are given, tentatively, to the period
B.C. 480-421.

No obols have hitherto been definitely given to the
intermediate period B.C. 550-480, but Mr. Head (B. M.
Catalogue, Phocis, p. xxv.), in assigning to this period
before the Persian wars the earliest inscribed coins
triobols remarks that " it is probable that many of the
smaller denominations described under the next period "
(i.e. those with the bull's head of strong massive style
and inscribed) " may belong to this."

That they do so belong I feel certain, as they not
only harmonise well with the triobols mentioned, but
would also have supplied the necessary small coinage,
and I would therefore suggest that to the earlier years of
the period B.C. 550-480 belong such obols as are
described above, and to the later years the coins with

NOTES ON SOME PHOCIAN OBOLS. 199

the bull's Lead of early massive style, such as is found

on the two following obols :

/
No. 3. B.C. 550-480 (late).

Obv. Bull's head facing, of massive style; the forelock
shown by circles.

Rev. Forepart of boar to 1. * one 1 foreleg only shown,
extended ; in front j all in incuse square.

JR. Obol. Wt. 12 grs. [PI. V., 3.]

So far as I can ascertain the British Museunl do&s
not contain a piece of similar style or like arrangement
of types. Both obverse and reverse show exceptional
vitality of design and execution^ the reverse especially
so. The type of the boar travelling to the left is an
uncommon variety.

No. 4. B.d. 550-480 (late).

Obv. Bull's head facing, of massive style ; the fdrelock
shown by lines : at sides Q O-

Rev. Forepart of boar to r. } one 1 foreleg shown, extended j
in incuse square.

JR. Obol, Wt. 15 grs. [PL V., 4.]

I have included this obol on account of the very
unusual treatment of the eyebrows of the bull. At first
sight it appears that this is due to a curious flaw in the
die, 1 as it is unnatural to find the eyebrows carried
straight down, instead of round, and then united over
the nasal bone, but there are .no traces of the usual
double or triple concentric rings round the eye, nor are
these carried round as on coins otherwise similar, and I

1 Mr. Head thinks that there is a flaw in the die.

p 2

200 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

am therefore inclined to regard it as ^,n attempt at
novelty of treatment.

No. 5. B.C. 480-421. LILABA.

Obv. Bull's head facing, of late massive style ; the forelock
shown by circles ; above A I.

Rev. Forepart of boar to r. ; both forelegs shown, one
extended, the other bent ; in incuse square.

M. Obol. Wt. 15 grs. [PI. V v 5.]

This coin, which is of rather indifferent workmanship,
is unpublished and may, as is indicated by the inscrip-
tion (which, though marred by faulty striking, is quite
distinct), be assigned to Lilaea, an important Phocian
town, of which the following coins have already been
noted :

(a) Obv. Tete de bceuf de face.

Rev. Al devant une tete de femme a droite, de style
archai'que, ceinte d'une bandelette et d'un collier
perle ; carre creux.

JR. Triobol. Wt. 2-88 grms. 2
(Imhoof-Blumer, Monn. Grec., p. 150.)

(b) Obv. Bull's head facing.

Rev. A I Head of Apollo to r. ; the whole in flat sunk
square.

JR. Triobol. Size 2J.
(H. P. Borrell, Num. Chron., vi., p. 124.)

(Prokesch-Osten., Num. ZeitscJir., 1870, p. 268.)

2 I have recently acquired a similar triobol : it has on the reverse the
letters A I in the upper right-hand corner: the bull's head on the obverse
bears a star, as on Nos. 6 and 7.

NOTES ON SOME PHOCIAN OBOLS. 201

Of these the first only would appear to be contempo-
rary with the obol now mentioned, and it is interesting
to note that, though the coins of the individual Phocian
cities are rarely to be met with, the few examples known
cover nearly every period of the coinage.

The town of Lilaea was situated near Parnassus, at
the source of the river Cephisus, and received its name
from the daughter of the river-god. Strabo refers to it
(Phoeis, iii. 16), as does Pausanias, who calls it about a
day's journey from Delphi. It is twice mentioned by
Homer (Iliad, ii. 453 and 523), and appears to have escaped
the common fate of the Phocian towns at the hands of
Xerxes, though the close of the Sacred War saw it razed
to the ground. It was subsequently rebuilt, and suffered
siege at the hands of Philip, son of Demetrius (Paus.
x. 23). That it was a place of some account may be
gathered from the description of its buildings, which
included a theatre, baths, an agora and temples of
Apollo and Artemis, with statues of Attic workmanship.

No. 6. B.C. 480-421.

Obv. Bull's head facing, of late massive style ; the forelock
shown by lines ; between the eyes a star ; above
CD - O.

Rev. Forepart of boar to r. ; both forelegs shown, one
extended,, one bent ; in incuse square.

JR. Obol. Wt. 14-5 grs. [PI. V., 6.]

A coin with a different reverse but with an almost similar
obverse is to be seen in the British Museum (B. M. Cat.,
Phoeis, No. 49) ; the bull's head, however, lacks the dis-
tinguishing mark of the star, which may have been some
natural mark essential to the sacrificial bull alluded to
by Mr. Head (Hist. Num., p. 287); or some votive orna-

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ment or decoration like the fillets found on later coins.
On certain coins of Poly rhenium in Crete (B. M. Cat.,
pi. xvi.) an obviously artificial star or rosette is found on
the bull's head, which is also filleted ; but here the mark
Appears more natural, as it also does on two coins of
Eretria in Euboea (J5. M- Cat, Nos. 13 and 14 ; pi. xxii.,
5 and 6), though in their case the rays of the star are
curved.

It may be of interest to note that the .bull's head on
the Eretrian coins is attributed (B. M. Cat., Central
Greece, p. 1.) to the worship of Artemis Amarynthia, and
in referring to the coinage of folyrhenium, Mr. Wroth
(J5 M. CaL, Crete, p. xxix.) remarks that " at Polyrhenium
the Cretan Artemis wftg venerated as Diktynna." It is
allowed that the female head on the triobols and the
boar on the obols indicate the worship of Artemis, and it
seems possible on the analogy of the Polyrhenian and
Euboean coins that the bull's head may have the same
intention (the horns, especially on the earliest coins,
might well suggest a lunar symbolism) ; the sacrificial
and symbolic sides being thus combined.- On the other
hand, we have the references to the eponymos Phokos
and to the bull of Neoptolemos (Head, Hist. Num.,
p. 287) and also the possibility suggested by Plutarch's
statement that Theseus sacrificed the Marathonian
bull to the Delphinian Apollo. The place of this last
sacrifice was, of course, the Delphinion at Athens, dedi-
cated in the joint names of Apollo and Artemis (Pollux,
viii. 118), and with a special maiden service to Artemis

3 In his monograph on " Samoa and Samian Coins," p. 16, Professor
Gardner draws attention to the worship of Artemis Tauropolos at Samos,
and refers to the possible connection of the bull on the coinage with that
divinity.

NOTES ON SOME PHOCIAN OBOLS. 203

Delphinia (Harrison, Ancient Athens, p. 206). In all
probability the Cretan and Marathonian bulls had a
common origin (Harrison, ibid., Introduction) and we
know that " on many Cretan coins Minos slides off into
the Dorian Apollo " (Head, Hist. Num., p. 383), so that
the bull's head, perhaps originating in the legend, may
represent one or both of the twin divinities of Sun and
Moon.

No. 7, B,C. 480-421.

Obv. Bull's head facing, of late massive style; forelock
shown by waved lines; between eyes a star; in

I K

the four corners Q _ Q

jSev. Forepart of boar to r. ; both forelegs shown, one
extended, one bent ; in incuse square,

JR. Obol. Wt. 15 grs. [PI. V., 7.]

This is the only obol that I have met with that bears
on the obverse the four-lettered inscription (as to its
possible appearance on the reverse, see Nos. 11 and 12.).

Like the preceding coin, No. 6, it bears the mark
of the star between the bull's eyes.

No. 8. B.C. 480-421.

Obv. Bull's head facing, of late massive style; forelock
shown by circles : at sides 4> (O).

Rev. Forepart of boar to 1. ; one foreleg only shown,
extended ; in incuse square.

JR. Obol. Wt. 15 grs, [PI. V., 8.]

I have included this coin, though its parallel exists
in the British Museum (Cat., Phocis, No. 46, pi. iii., 13),
on account of the lettering, which is of considerable
epigraphic interest, as it shows the change from the
old self-contained form of to the later one with the
prolonged hasta. Mr. Head remarks (B. M. Catalogue,

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P. xxyi.) that this change first occurs on the bronze
coins of the period B.C. 371-357, bearing the head of
Pallas, but with all deference I think he must have
overlooked the Museum specimen, as there can be no
possible doubt of its earlier date, nor of that of the coin
now noticed. On a triobol also, in my collection, of
about B.C. 480 [Pl f V., 9], with the inscription <t>OKl, the
later form is clearly shown.

The same change occurs on coins of about the same
period, i.e. B.C. 480-400 (B. M. Cat., Thessaly, pi. x.,
Nos. 1 and 2 and 4-7), of Pherae Pelasgiotis in Thessaly,
which state was continuously in contact with and a
rivaj, of Phocis. On the coins of Pharae in Boeotia the
change took place between B.C. 480 and 387. The new
form would therefore seem to have been introduced in
Phocis and the neighbouring states in the early part of
the fifth century.

No. 10. B.C. 480^431.

Obv. Bull's head facing, of late massive style ; the forelock
shown by waved lines : at sides - O.

Eev. Forepart of boar to r.- both forelegs shown,
extended; in incuse square.

M. Obol. Wt. 15-5 grs. [PI. V., 10.]

The reverse type, the boar galloping with both fore-
legs outstretched, has not, I think, been published
before.

No. 11. B.C. 480-421 (late).
Obv. Bull's head facing, of late style.

Eev. Forepart of boar to 1. ; one foreleg shown, extended ;
above, in 1. corner, indistinct letter or symbol ;
below, in r. corner I (?).

M. Obol. Wt. 16 grs. [PI. V., 11.]

NOTES ON SOME PHOCIAN OBOLS. 205

The interest of this coin lies mainly in the late style
of the treatment of the obverse, no example of which
is in the British Museum.

The object in the field on the reverse appears to be
or to have been a letter; unfortunately, it is almost
illegible, though it most nearly resembles a K. If so,
it might help us with regard to the reading Kl suggested
for the two coins next described, the more so as possibly
the head of an I can be made out behind the boar's
shoulder. Should this be the case the position of the
letters would seem to eliminate the chance of the
inscription <I>OKl, but in view of the uncertainty of the
evidence, and also of the fact that, though the obverse
of our ' coin resembles that of No. 13, the reverse is
dissimilar, I have thought it advisable to speak of
Nos. 12 and 13 by themselves.

There is, of course, the alternative that the object may
be a symbol, examples of which occur on the Phocian
coins and are referred to under No. 14.

No. 12. B.C. 480-421 (early). KIRRHA (?).
Obv. Bull's head facing, of late massive style.

Mev. Forepart of boar to r. ; one foreleg only shown,
extended ; below I K , all in incuse square.

M. Obol. Wt. 12 grs. [PL V., 12.]

No. 13. B.C. 480-421 (late). KIRRHA (?).
Obv. Bull's head facing, of late style (as No. 11).

I$ev. Forepart; of boar to r, ; one foreleg shown, extended \
below I K ; all in incuse square.

JR. Obol. Wt. 14 grs. [PI. V., 13.]

I have bracketed these two coins together, as, though
their obverses are of different periods, their reverses are

206 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

alike and bear the same inscription, and perhaps point
to an addition to the growing number of those Phocian
towns which struck money in their own name. Unfor-
tunately, through faulty striking, neither is as distinct
as could be desired, and, although it seems to me that
the coins when taken together form a fairly complete
whole, I shall be glad to know if any collector possesses
such a specimen as may determine the question.

Of the two coins the older one (No. 12) reads Kl very
clearly in the lower part of the field, but, unfortunately,
the upper portion, owing to defective striking, is
missing, and a slight abrasion of the edge, where further
lettering might be looked for, only adds to the difficulty.

On the later coin (No. 13) the front portion of the
field is intact ; in the lower part the K is again quite
clear, and, as on No. 12, traces of the I are visible
behind the boar's shoulder. In the front upper part it
has been suggested to me that faint traces of an O
appear, but, though this would greatly simplify the
reading, I fear that I cannot decipher it myself; while
the K and upper part of the I are distinct, in high relief
and well away from the edge of the incuse, the assumed
traces of the O are most irregular, exceedingly faint,
and placed on the very slope of the incuse, where, if
anywhere, they should have been protected from wear,
and are, I think, nothing but a slight fortuitous rough-
ness common to most of the Phocian coins. On neither
coin does there appear to be any space for the o
necessary to complete the suggested inscription. Of
course, if the O could be clearly read there would be
little doubt that the intended inscription was (0)OKI, as
is found on triobols of the period and on the obverse of
No. 7, and though no other obols are known with the

NOTES ON SOME PHOCIAN OBOLS. 207

four-lettered inscription on the reverse there is no reason
why these coins may not (like No. 7) be the first
examples of the reading to be made known. Failing
the reading (DOKl r which I cannot think these coins in
any way bear out, it may be well to consider the
alternative Kl. That it is not a case of an inscription
begun on one side and continued on the other (as on
coins of Phlius, Larissa, Thyrreion, Lampsacus, etc.) is
clear, since the obverses are devoid of lettering. The
older coin, No. 12, might possibly have been held to be
a mule, but that the later one, No. 13, bears no sign of
any inscription on the obverse, nor does the only one
with a similar obverse that I know of, i.e. No. 11.

It seems to me more probable that we have in the
Jetters Kl the initial part of the name of another Phocian
town, previously unknown as a mint, striking coins with
the common federal type and its own distinguishing
letters, parallels for which are found in the neighbour-
ing Boeotia and also among the cities of the Achaean
League. Coins with the letters Al, EA, AE, AN and NE
(an obol, not a trihemiobol, as mentioned in the Hist.
Num., p. 290) have been previously assigned to the
Phocian towns of Lilaea, Elatea, Ledon, Anticyra and
Neon, so there is no novelty in the suggestion, and
should the letters be ultimately found to read Kl, a
suitable attribution would be to Kirrha, the seaport of
Delphi, famous in history as the cause of the first Sacred
War, and as the centre for the pilgrim traffic to Delphi
from the south of Greece.

While a general survey of the coins mentioned con-
firms the federal character of the Phooian coinage, as
already pointed out by Mr. Head, and the conservatism

208 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

of its types, it will, I think, be allowed that they suggest
several points of interest, and give us some further
material for a knowledge of Phocian numismatics.
Even the steady adherence to the old types, though
somewhat monotonous, is of considerable assistance in
that it enables us to see more clearly the main steps
taken in the progress of art and thus to arrange the
coins in a probable sequence.

The different phases of art that they exhibit and the
great number of minor variations in treatment (e.g. that
of the bull's forelock) point to an extension of the period
suggested (B.C. 480-421) for the date of their issue, as
the 60 years are too few to allow for the artistic progress
and decline shown on the coins before us.

As already mentioned, I am disposed to place at the
commencement of the period B.C. 550-480 such coins as
Nos. 1 and 2, and to the later part advance the earlier
obols of the " strong massive " type, as Nos. 3 and 4.
To the earlier years of the next period, B.C. 480-421,
appear to belong the coins of the late massive style, as
Nos. 5-8, 10 and 12, and to the later years such as
Nos. 11 and 13 ; these last I should be inclined to put
even later were it not that the old form of incuse
remains unchanged, and also for the presence (by-
report) in the hoard of the Athenian tetradrachms, the
date of which agrees with the periods indicated.

No. 14.

Obv. Bull's head facing ; forelock shown by circles ; traces
of O at sides.

Rev. Forepart of boar to r. ; both forelegs shown, extended;
above, two olive leaves and berry ; all in shallow
incuse.

M. Obol. Wt. 12 grs. [PI. V., 14.1

NOTES ON SOME PHOCIAN OBOLS. 209

I have described this obol by itself, as it came from
another source than those previously mentioned, from
which it differs greatly in style. It is struck on a con-
siderably larger and thinner flan, with a very shallow
and almost circular incuse; the treatment also is
different and of later style. The reverse type is un-
published (it is altogether different from No. 10), and
gains in interest from the presence of the olive spray
resembling that found on the Athenian coinage ; this
same symbol occurs on another but different obol in the
British Museum (No. 49) of the period B.C. 480-421.

Symbols on Phocian coins are of rare occurrence, but
the following are quoted in the B. M. Catalogue :

No. 49. Olive spray. Obol. B.C. 480-421.

No. 55. Dolphin. Obol. B.C. 421-371.

No. 58. Ivy branch. Obol. B.C. 421-371.

No. 78. Lyre. Triobol. B.C. 357-346.

No. 87. Laurel branch. Triobol. B.C. 357-346.

It is interesting to note that all these symbols are of
an Apolline character; some, as the olive and dolphin,
occur as types on the coinages of Phocis and Delphi ;
the ivy leaf is present on two Delphian coins in the
Museum (Cat., Nos. 20 and 21), and the lyre and laurel
are well known in their connection with the god.

It is not easy to account for their presence; the
infrequency of their appearance over so extended a
period and their persistent religious character are un-
favourable to the view that they may be magistrates*
symbols ; for the same reasons they can hardly be the
mintmarks of the various federal cities, of which all
the coins hitherto attributed are inscribed, and to none
of which do the various symbols seem applicable with

210 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

the possible exception of the dolphin, to Delphi, which
had, however, at that period (B.C. 421-371) a coinage of
its own. That the coins bearing them were struck on
the various occasions when the Phocians occupied
Delphi is improbable, as the majority of them belong to
the period after the peace of Nikias when the " splendid
isolation" of Delphi was confirmed. The theory of
foreign alliances being indicated helps us no further, as,
with the exception of the olive, the symbols seem
unconnected with any state. The present coin 4 might,
perhaps, be an exception, as it differs so remarkably
from the other Phocian coins, but I think it is more
advisable to class it with the others, and, in view of the
apparent references to Apollo, to regard the symbols as
of religious significance either as to the place of issue (as
some temple) or to the occasion, which might be that of
some special festival.

NEVILLE LANGTON.

4 It is noteworthy how exactly the olive spray resembles that on the
Athenian coinage, and there are several occasions of alliance between the
two states which might have been thus recorded, e.g. in B.C. 448-431, etc.
Samian coins bearing an olive spray have been assigned by Prof. Gardner
to the period of the Athenian conquest in B.C. 439, but in the present case
we have no such decisive evidence of suzerainty.

VIII.

CLASSIFICATION CHKONOLOGIQUE DES

SIONS MONE1TAIKES DE L'ATELIER DE
NICOMEDIE PENDANT LA PERIODS CON-
STANTINIENNE.

(Voir Planches VI., VII.)

LA province de Bithynie, dans laquelle se trouvait
Tatelier de Nicomedie, faisait partie des etats de Galere
lors de 1'abdication des empereurs Diocletien et Maximien
Hercule, qui eut lieu le l er Mai 305 a Nicomedie meme 1
pour Diocletien et a Milan pour Maximien Hercule.
Dans la nouvelle tetrarchie qui fut constitute avec
Galere et Constance Chlore Augustes, Severe et Maximin
Daza Cesars, Galere conserva 1'Illyrie, la Thrace et
la Bithynie, 2 et 1'atelier de Nicomedie resta dans ses
etats jusqu'a sa mort en 311. La Bithynie, province
voisine de celle d'Asie, avait eu le meme systeme
monetaire qu'elle sous le haut empire. 3 A 1'epoque qui
nous occupe, mais a partir de Tannee 306 seulement,

1 Lactantii de Mortibus Persecutorum, cap. ix. : " Cum haec essent con-
stituta, procedit kalendis Mails." Eutropii brev., ix. 27 : " Tamen uterque
una die private habitu imperil insigne mutavit, Nicomediae Diocle-
tianus, Herculius Mediolani." Aurelius Victor, Epitome, 33 ; Zonaras,
xii. 32.

2 Anonymus Valesii, iii. 5 : " Maximino datum est orientis imperium ;
Galerius sibi Illyricum, Thracias et Bithyniam tenuit."

3 Mommsen, Histoire de la Monnaie Romaine; traduction Blacas f
tome iii,, p. 310.

212 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

les ateliers de Cyzique en Asie et de Nicomedie en
Bithynie frapperent le meme sigle (CMH, qui indique la
valeur du follis), sur leurs pieces de bronze. Les memes
legendes et les memes types furent egalement inscrits et
represented sur les bronzes des deux ateliers, bien qu'ils
appartinsent a deux empereurs differents, Galere et
Maximin Daza.

PREMIERE EMISSION.

Frappee depuis V abdication de Diocletien et de Maximien
Hereule le l er Mai 305 jusqu'a TeUvation de Licinius
Auguste le 11 Novembre 308.

Cette emission se divise chronologiquement en deux
parties dont la premiere fut emise depuis 1'abdication de
Diocletien et Hereule jusqu'a Felevation de Severe II
au rang d' Auguste, qui suivit la mort de Constance
Chlore, laquelle survint le 25 Juillet 306. La seconde
partie de 1'emission parut apres 1'elevation de Severe II
au rang d' Auguste.

Les grands bronzes, ou folles, de la premiere partie de
cette emission sont les memes que ceux qui etaient
frappes a la fin du regne de Diocletien ; ils pesent en
moyenne 10 grammes, et ont 25 a 26 millimetres de
diametre. Ceux de la seconde partie de 1'emission n'ont
qu'un diametre moyen de 22 millimetres. Les pieces
d'or sont toutes taillees sur le pied de l/60 me a la livre
d'or; c'est a dire qu'elles ont un poids normal de
5 gr. 45 c. 4 Je parlerai plus loin des sigles qui se
trouvent sur ces different es pieces. L'atelier de Nico-
medie n'a que deux officines ouvertes au cours de cette
premiere emission.

4 E. Babelon, Traite des Monnaies Grecques et Romaines, l er volume^
p, 530.

L'ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 213

PREMIERE PARTIE DE I/EMISSION.

Frappee depuis le l er Mai 305 jusqu'au 25 Juillet 306
et caracterisee par les pieces de Constantius I (Constance
Chlore).

Exergues des pieces de bronze de la premiere partie
de remission :

SMNA SMNB

Ces exergues doivent se lire "Sacra Moneta Niko-
mediae " ; officines A et B.

On trouve

I. Au revers. La legende GENIO . POPVLI - ROM AN I, et
comme type le Genie coiffe du modius, a demi
mi, debout a gauche, tenant une patere d'oii la
liqueur coule et urie corne d'abondance.

Au droit. 1. IMP C - FL - VAL CONSTANTIVS - P .
F AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 102 ;
off. B ; BR. Mus. ; Voetter. [PL VI., No. 1.]

2. IMP C GAL VAL - MAXIMIANVS P F AVG.

Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 81; off. A;
BR. Mus. ; 25 m.m. ; Voetter.

3. GAL VAL MAXIMINVS - NOB CAES. Sa tete lauree

a droite. Cohen, 81 ; off. B; BR. Mus.

4. FL VAL SEVERVS NOB CAES. Sa tete lauree

a droite. Cohen, 27 ; off. A ; Voetter.

La legende Genio Populi Eomani caracterise les
emissions sorties de 305 a 308 des ateliers de Galere
(Serdica, Siscia, Nikomedia), et de ceux de Maximin Daza
(Cyzicus, Antiochia, Alexandria).

II. Au revers. VIRTVTI EXERCITVS et comme type
MarSj le manteau flottant, marchant a droite,
portant une haste et un trophee.
VOL. III., SERIES IV. Q

214 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Au droit. IMP C GAL - VAL MAXIMIANVS P F
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 231 ;
BR. Mus. ; off. A.

Les monnaies d'abdication de Diocletien et de Maxi-
mien Hercule, d'apres les recherches de Friedrich Kenner
et les miennes, n'ont pas ete emises a Nicomedie, dont
1'emission presente ne comprend que les pieces de Con-
stance Chlore, Galere, Severe, Maximin Daza, puis apres
la mort de Constance Chlore celles de Constantin.

PIECES D'OR FAISANT PARTIE DE LA PREMIERE
PARTIE DE L'EMISSION.

Ces pieces presentent a la fin de la legende du revers
le sigle N< compose de deux lettres du nom de Nt/eo/^Saa,
ou Nikomedia.

Elles presentent toutes 1'exergue ' et sont de

SMN

1'espece du l/60 me a la livre d'or.

On trouve

I. Au revers. ipVI - CONSERVATORI N<. Jupiter laure,
demi-nu, debout a gauche, le manteau rejete en
arriere, tenant un foudre dans la main droite et
appuye de la gauche sur un sceptre.

Au droit. 1. MAXIMIANVS AVGVSTVS. Sa tete lauree
a gauche. Cohen, 374 de Hercule, attribuable
a Galere ; H. Mus. V. ; 5 gr. 35 c.

2. Piece de Constantin (voir Fr. Kenner).

II. Au revers. MARTI PATRI - N<. Mars debout a
gauche, appuye sur un bouclier et tenant une
haste.

Au droit. SEVERVS - NOB CAES. Sa tete lauree a
droite. Cohen, 55 ; coll. Trau ; 5 gr. 43 c.

L'ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 215

III. Au refers. SOLI INVICTO - N<. Le Soleil radie,
debout de face, regardant a droite, le manteau
deploy e derriere lui, levant la droite et tenant
un fouet.

Au droil. MAXIMINVS CAESAR. Sa tete lauree a droite.
Cohen, 163 ; BE. Mus. ; H. Mus. V., No. 25097;
coll. Trau j 5 gr. 30 c. ; 20 m.m.

DEUXIEME PARTIE DE I/EMISSIOff.

Frappee posterieurement a la mort de Constance Chlore
le 25 Juillet 306 et a Televation de Severe au rang
d'Auguste et de Constantin a celui de Cesar.

Les folles ou monnaies de bronze de cette partie de
1'emission sont d'un pied monetaire moindre .que les
precedents. Us n'ont en moyenne qu'un diametre de
22 millimetres et un poids moyen de 7 gr. 50 c. a
8 gr. On y lit, inscrit a la fin de la legende du revers
de ces especes le sigle CMH. La coincidence de la
diminution du poids des monnaies de bronze avec
1'apparition du sigle CIVH a fait admettre a Friedrich
Kenner que ce sigle etait 1'expression d'une valeur qu'il
lit CMX ou 900 deniers de bronze, le signe du denier se
trouvant incompletement represente dans le monogramme.
La difference du chiffre de 900 avec celui de 600, qui est
le nombre des deniers de bronze contenus dans un
aureus ou piece du l/60 me a la livre d'or dans le systeme
de Diocletien, resulterait, d'apres Kenner, de 1'adoption
a Nicomedie de poids locaux/ La livre d'or en usage,
ou talent, peserait non pas 328 grammes mais486 grammes,
et contiendrait non pas 60 aurei ou pieces d'or mais 90 ; 6

5 Friedrich Kenner, Die altesten Prdgungen der Munztflitte Nicomedia,
Numismatische Zeitschrift, 189 1, pnbliee en 1895, tome xxvi., pp. 5 k 9.

6 De plus Kenner remarque que le poids grec, le statere, etant de
8 grammes, son 6 me ou Hecte de 1 gr. 85 c., 4 Hecte' font un aureus de
5 gr. 40 c. ; et qu'il y a 90 aurei de 5 gr. 40 c. chaque dans une livre d'or
de Nicomcdie de 486 grammes.

Q 2

216 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

les deniers de bronze varieraient dans la meme proportion
de 600 a 900 pour un aureus. De cette fapon s'expli-
querait tout a la fois le sigle inscrit sur les pieces d'or
et celui qu'on lit sur les bronzes. En effet le sigle
NKYXC qu'on lit sur les pieces d'or (aurei) se compose
de N<, sigle de Mkomedia deja signale, du chiffre 90, XC,
qui indiquerait la division de la livre en aurei, et du
sigle Jj^ compose d'un V et d'un L, que Kenner propose
de lire Librae Valore. L'explication de Friedrich Kenner
a Ta vantage de donner une traduction tres vraisemblable
et complete des deux sigles de Nicomedie ; c'est pourquoi
elle me semble preferable aux autres explications
tentees. 7

MONNAIES DE BRONZE.

Exergues :

SMNA SMNB

On trouve

I. An revers. GEN IO POPyLl ROMANI - CIVH. Avec le
type du revers deja decrit avec la legende Genio
Populi Romani.

Au droit. 1. IMP C - GAL VAL . MAXIMIANVS P F
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 82 ;
collection. Lichtenstein au H. Mus. V. ; off. A.

2. GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB - CAES. Tete ana-
logue. Cohen, 80 ; off. B ; BR. Mus. ; Musee
de Berlin; Yoetter; pieces de 22 m.m.

7 Notamment & celle de Friedlaender dans la Zeitschrift fiir Numis-
matik, tome ii., 1875, p. 15, a celle de Missong, meme Zeitschrtft,
tome vii., 1880, pp. 251, 262, 287, qui ne tiennent compte toutes deux
que d'une partie du sigle des pieces d'or ; et meme a celle de John Evans,
(Numismatic Chronicle, 188G, pp. 282 et 283) qui est une hypothese
inge'nieuse qui aurait besoin d'etre confirmee de la reunion de deux
chiffres 55 ou Y et 90 ou XC, exprimant la taille de Vaureus dans 1'atelier
de Nicomedie et son rapport a la taille romaine.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 217

Les pieces analogues de Severe Augusts et de Con-
stantin n'ont pas ete rencontrees jusqu'ici.

II. Au revers. VIRTVTI - EXERCITVS CIVH. Avec le revers
deja decrit avec cette legende.

Au droit. 1. IMP C GAL - VAL MAXIMIANVS - P - F -
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 232;
Voetter ; off. A.

2. GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB CAES. Tete ana-
logue. Piece inedite ; Voetter ; off. B.

PIECES D'OR APPARTENANT A LA SECONDE PARTIE

DE L'EMISSION.

Avec 1'exergue -gL-

On trouve

I. Au revers. IOVI CONSERVATORI N<MXC. Le type
deja decrit avec la legende lovi Conservatori.

Au droit. MAXIMIANVS AVGVSTVS. Sa tete lauree a
droite. Cohen, 375; de Hercule, attribuable
aGalere; H. Mus. V.

II. Au revers. HERCVLI VICTOR I N<. Hercule nu,
debout a droite, appuye sur sa massue et tenant
de la main gauche la peau de lion et cinq
pommes.

Au droit. SEVERVS AVGVSTVS. Sa tete lauree a
droite. Cohen, 50 ; H. Mus. V., No. 25053 ;
5 gr. 40 c. ; BE. Mus. [PI. VI., No. 2.]

Cette piece demontre que le sigle NK, le plus simple
des deux, continue a etre inscrit sur certaines pieces
d'or au cours de cette seconde partie de 1'emission,
tandis que le sigle NCYXC 1'etait le plus sou vent.
L'on peut remarquer egalement que Severe II, qui avait
re9u 1'heritage de Maximien Hercule, etait un prince de
la dynastie Herculeenne afnsi que Constantin, tandis que

218 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Maximin Daza et Licinius, qui repurent le pouvoir des
mains de Galere, heritier de Diocletien, et furent adoptes
par lui, etaient des princes de la dynastie Jovienne.

III. Au revers. SOU 1NVICTO N<YXC. Le Soleil radie,

a demi nu, debout de face, regardant a droite,
le inanteau deploye derriere lui, levant la droite
et tenant un fouet.

Au droit. MAXIMINVS CAESAR. Sa tete lauree a droite.
Cohen, 164; FR. No. 1496; 5 gr. 20 c. ;
20 m.m. ; coll. Trail ; 5 gr. 30 c. [PI. VI.,
No. 3.]

Les effigies des Nos. 2, 3, 4 et 5 reproduisent, toutes,
les traits de Galere, dans lea etats duquel se trouve
1'atelier jusqu'en 31 1. 8

IV. Au revers. MARTI PATRI N<XXC. Mars debout a

gauche, en habit militaire, tenant de la main
droite un bouclier a terre et appuye de la
gauche sur une haste.

Au droit. CONSTANTINVS CAESAR. Sa tete lauree a
droite ; variete de Cohen 357 ; Musee de Turin ;
coll. Trau; 5 gr. 15 c.

La piece de Cohen No. 357 est semblable a celle-ci,
si ce n'est qu'elle ne presente a la fin de la legende du
revers que le sigle le plus simple, c'est a dire le mono-
gramme de Nicomedie seul, soit N<. II est certain que
toutes les pieces d'or de cette serie se presentent avec
1'un et 1'autre des deux sigles indiques.

L'on peut indiquer comme piece barbare imitee de

celles de Nicomedie et portant 1'exergue J la suivante :

V. Au revers. SO LVN VI CTO (we) N<YXC. Avec le type
deja decrit avec la legende Soli Invicto.

8 Voir sur ces emprunts d'eflBgie par les empereurs du iv me siecle
mon article sur I' Atelier Monetaire d'Alexandrie, dans la Numismatic
Chronicle de 1902, p. 124 et seq.

L'ATELIER MONETAIKE DE NICOMEDIE. 219

Au droit. SEVTVAS (sic) AVGVSTVS. Sa tete lauree a
droite. Seutuas pour Severus.* Coll. Welzl
von Wellenheim.

DEUXIEME EMISSION.

Frappee depuis I' elevation de Licinius au rang d" Augusts
a la conference de Carnuntum le 11 Novembre SQSjusqu'a
la mort de Galere qui survint le 5 Mai 311.

En effet les monnaies de Licinius Auguste apparaissent
des le debut de cette emission et eelles de Galere et de
1'imperatrice Valerie, sa femme r cessent de paraitre avee
elle.

La frappe des monnaies de Galerie Valerie fut decidiee
a la conference de Carnuntum, ainsi que je 1'ai expliqu
dans mon etude sur 1'atelier d'Alexandrie. 10

Quant aux empereurs Maximin Daza et Constantin, ils
repurent d'abord le premier le titre de Cesar, le deuxiem^
celui de Filius Augusti, au debut de cette emission,, et
echangerent tous deux ces titres contre ceux d'Augustes au
printemps de 309, ainsi que je Tai explique dans mon article
sur 1'atelier d'Antioche. 11 A par-tir de ce moment il y eut
jusqu'a la mort de Galere quatre Augustes dans 1'empire,
Galere, Licinius,. Maximin Daza et Constantin. Maxence,
qui n'etait pas reconnu par Galere, resta en dehors de
cette tetrarchie. Cette emission? se distingue encore de
la precedente parce que 1'atelier de Nicomedie fonctionna
a partir du debut de cette emission avec six officines
A B r A e^s. Le sigle civn continue a se trouver a

9 Piece decrite dans Fried, Kenner, loc*. cii., p. 24.

10 J. Maurice, L' Atelier mon&aire d'Alexandrie, Numismatic Chronicle,
1902, p. 108.

11 J. Maurice, ISAteliev montfaire d'Antioclie, Numismatic Chronicle,
1899, p. 218.

220 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

la fin des legendes du revers sur la plupart des monnaies
de bronze, et le sigle N<Y.CX sur certaines pieces d'or.
Cela s'explique par ce fait que les memes especes
monetaires continuerent a paraitre et que Ton emit des
pieces du meme pied monetaire qu'au cours de la seconde
partie de remission precedente. Mais le poids de ces
pieces est toutefois plus variable; elles pesent depuis
6 gr. 50 c. jusqu'a 8 gr. 50 c.
Exergues de remission :

_L _L JL I I I

SMNA SMNB SMNf SMNA SMN6 SMNS

L'atelier de Nicomedie frappa au debut de cette
emission jusqu'au printemps de 309 les pieces de Galere
et de Licinius avec la legende du revers Genio Augusti,
et celles de Maximin et de Constantin avec le revers
Genio Caesaris ; ces deux derniers empereurs eurent aussi
leurs monnaies frappees avec la legende Genio Augusti,
mais a partir du printemps de 309 seulement.

On trouve

I. Au refers. GENIO . CAESARIS CI^H. Avec le Genie
coiffe du modius, a demi nu, debout a gauche,
tenant une patere d'ou la liqueur coule et une
corne d'abondance.

Au droit. 1. QAL . VAL . MAXIMINVS NOB - CAES.
Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 45; off.
B r S; BB. Mus. ; FR. 8824; Musee de
Berlin ; coll. Voetter, Mowat.

II existe des pieces pareilles mais sans le sigle CIVH
qui sont inedites, notamment dans la collection Lichten-
stein au musee de Vienne, H. Mus. V. ; ces pieces ont un
diametre moyen de 26 m.m. II est possible qu'elles aient

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 221

ete frappees au cours de remission precedente, Daza
ayant ete elu Cesar le l er Mai 305.

2. FL VAL . CONSTANTINVS FIL - AVG. Sa tete lauree
a droite. Cohen, 189; off. |~ B; BR. Mus.;
H. Mus. V. ; coll. Lichtenstein ; Musee de
Berlin; Voetter. [PL VI., No. 4.] (Con-
stantin regoit 1'effigie de Galere.)

Constantin semble etre le seul des deux Cesars designe
comme Filius Augusti sur les pieces de Nicomedie. L'on
sait que Maximin Daza refusa ce titre que lui offrait
Galere, et defendit de 1'inscrire sur les monnaies de ses
ateliers de Cyzique, Antioche et Alexandrie. 12 Mais
Nicomedie appartenait a Galere et cet empereur donna
le titre de Filii Augustorum tant a Maximin Daza qu'a
Constantin, et le fit inscrire sur les bronzes de son atelier
de Thessalonica 13 comme sur ceux de celui de Siscia, 14
qui appartenait au second Auguste qu'il avait cree,
Licinius. Si done Maximin ne reut pas la inerne deno-
mination sur les pieces de Nicomedie, cela tient a une
raison speciale. Je la trouve dans les echanges permanents
d'especes qui ayaient lieu entre la Bithynie et TAsie, ou
1'atelier de Cyzique avait le meme systeme monetaire
que celui de Nicomedie. II eiit ete inutile d'ernettre
dans ce dernier atelier des pieces qui n'eussent pas eu
cours dans la province d'Asie 15 comme dans celle de
Bithynie, et c'est pourquoi 1'on n'y frappa probablement

12 J. Maurice, L 1 Atelier d' Antioche, p. 218; L 1 Atelier d' Alexandrie,
p. 103; Numismatic Chronicle, 1899 et 1902.

13 J. Maurice, L'Atelier mon&aire de Thessalonica, Numismatische
Zeitschrift, pp. 112 et 113.

14 J. Maurice, L'Atelier mon&aire de Siscia, Numismatic Chronicle,
1900, p. 309.

15 Qui appartenait a Maximin Daza.

222 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

pas de bronzes avec la legende Maximinus Fil. Aug.,
qui n'eussent pas eu cours dans les etats de Maximin
Daza, qui comprenaient la province d'Asie.

L'on trouve

II. Au revers. GENIO AVGVSTI CIVH. Avec le Genie a
demi mi, debout a gauche, coiffe du ruodius, le
manteau rejete en arriere, tenant une patere
d'ou la liqueur coule et une corne d'abondance.

Au droit.l. IMP . C - GAL - VAL . MAXIMIANVS P F
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 42 ;
off. A-A-6; FR. Nos. 8501, 8502, 8503;

7 gr. 55 c. ; 25 m.m. ; BE. Mus. ; Musee de
Berlin; Voetter. [PI. VI., No. 5.] (Effigie
de Galere appliquee a Hercule.)

2. IMP C . VAL - LICIN - LICINIVS P- F AVG. Tete

analogue. Cohen, 37 ; off. A A 6 S ; BK.
Mus. ; Yoetter.

3. IMP - C GAL VAL . MAXIMINVS P F AVG. Tete

analogue. Cohen, 34; off. B A 6 S; FR.
Nos. 8795 ; 6 gr. 40 c. ; 26 m.m. ; 14020,
6 gr. 10 c. ; et 14021 ; BR. Mus. ; Yoetter.
[PL VI., No. 6.]

4. IMP - C FL - VAL CONSTANTINVS P F - AVG.

Tete analogue. Cohen, 183 ; off. B-f; Voetter.

Ces deux dernieres pieces n'ont pu etre frappees qu'apres
la reconnaissance de Maximin et de Constantin comme
Augustes par Galere, au prin temps de 1'annee 309.

III. Au revers. VENERI VICTRICI CM-I. Venus debout
a gauche, tenant une pomme dans la main
droite et soulevant son voile.

Au droit. GAL VALERIA AVG. Son buste drape a
droite avec le croissant dans les cheveux et un
collier de perles au cou. Cohen, 13 ; off. A B A ;
BR. Mus. ; Voetter ; off. s ; Musee de Berlin ;

8 gr. 40 c. ; 26 m.m. [PI. VL, No. 7.]

L' ATELIER MONET AIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 223

J'ai montre dans une etude recente sur 1'atelier de
Treves et en me reportant a la classification chronolo-
gique des monnaies de Constantinople et d'Antioche, que
le diademe n'avait ete adopte pour les effigies imperiales
sur les monnaies romaines qu'apres la prise de Con-
stantinople par Constantin en 324 ; 16 et que c'etait bien
a cette epoque qu'il fallait faire remonter 1'adoption du
diademe par cet ernpereur, qui en avait orne d'abord la
fete de 1'imperatrice Helene.

Je crois done qu'il est necessaire de changer les descrip-
tions de Cohen ou il est dit que la tete ou le buste
de Valerie sont diademes. Cette imperatrice porte un
croissant comme celui de Diane.

Les monnaies de Valerie furent emises depuis la con-
ference de Carnuntum (11 Novembre 308) jusqu'a la mort
de Galere (le 5 Mai 311), a une epoque ou le diademe ne
s'etait pas encore montre sur les monnaies romaines, si
ce n'est sur quelques pieces de Tarse sous Caracalla dans
des frappes locales qui n'interessaient pas 1'ensemble
de 1'empire. 17 Cohen au contraire decrit comme diademes
les bustes de plusieurs imperatrices, notamment Magma
Urbica et Galeria Valeria, qui ne portent qu'un simple
croissant dans les cheveux.

IV. Au revers. VIRTVTI EXERCITVS CIVH. Mars en
habit militaire, marchant a droite, portant une
haste et un trophee et ayant un bouclier au bras
gauche.

Au droit.\MP C GAL VAL - MAXIMINVS P F . AVG.
Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 215 ; off. B r ;
BE. Mus. ; Voetter.

18 J. Maurice, IS Atelier mone'taire de Treves, deuxieme par tie, Me'moires
de la Sociel des Antiquaires de France, 1901, pp. 76 a 79.

17 Voir 1'article Diadema dans le Dictionnaire des Antiquites Grecques
et Romaines de Daremberg et Saglio, tome ii., p. 120.

224 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Les pieces suivantes ne presentent pas le meme
sigle CM-l ; elles font toutefois partie de la meme
emission a laquelle elles sont rattachees par leurs
exergues.

V. Au revers. \OV\ CONSERVATORI AVG. Jupiter a

demi nu, debout a gauche, le manteau sur
1'epaule gauche, appuye sur un sceptre et
tenant un globe ; a ses pieds a gauche un aigle
tenant une couronne en son bee.

Au droit. \MP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 120 ;
off. A B r A ; FR. 8880 ; 8 gr. 70 c. ;
26 m.m. ; BR. Mus. ; Voetter.

VI. Au revers. VIRTVS - EXERCITVS. Mars casque en habit

militaire, marchant a droite, portant une haste
et un trophee et ayant un bouclier au bras gauche.

Au droit.\MP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F . AVG.
Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 204 ; off. A B ;
FR. 8919; BR. Mus.

On doit ranger dans cette emission les pieces d'or
suivantes, avec 1'exergue ^^

On trouve

I. Au revers. VENER I . VICTRICI. Avec le type decrit
avec cette legende.

Au droit. GkL VALERIA AVG. Son buste drape a
droite avec le croissant dans les cheveux.
Cohen, 1, piece d'or du type du l/60 me a la
livre; FR. I486 ; 5 gr. 31 c. ; 20 m.m.

II. Meme piece avec la legende VENERI VICTRICI NKYXC.
au revers. Cohen, 11 ; Musee de Berlin, piece
pesant 5 gr. 10 c., mais trouee.

III. Au revers. CONSVL P P PROCONSVL. Maximin
laure et en toge, debout a gauche, tenant un
globe et un sceptre court.

Au droit. MAXIMINVS P F AVG. Son buste laure
a droite avec le manteau imperial et tenant un
sceptre. Cohen, 11 ; BR. Mus. ; 18 m.m.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 225

Maximin Daza fut consul en 1'annee 307, mais comme
il ne prit le titre d'Auguste qu'apres 1'elevation de
Licinius en Novembre 308 et meme quelques mois plus
tard, au printemps de 309 apres 1'echec de negotiations
prolongees avec Galere, cette piece ne peut pas avoir ete
frappee pendant 1'annee de son consulat, mais a dii 1'etre
dans 1'une des annees qui suivirent. Ce fait est a noter
car a 1'epoque Constantinienne, on trouve des representa-
tions d'empereurs en toge portant le globe et le
baton d'ivoire sur les pieces frappees pour celebrer leur
entree en consulat avec les legendes caracteristiques,
FELIX PROCESSVS COS AVG . N. 18

L'on voit que le meme type se retrouve sur d'autres
pieces que celles de 1'entree en consulat des empereurs,
et sur des pieces emises en d'autres annees que celles
de leur consulat. 19

TROISIEME EMISSION.

Frappee depuis la mort de GaTere le 5 Mai 311 ou
plutot depuis la prise de la Bitliynie et de T atelier de
Nicomedie par Maximin Daza, a la suite de cette mort, en
Mai ou Juin 311, jusquen Vannee 312, pendant laquelle

18 Nos. 152 k 155 de Constantin dans Cohen. Maxence se fait plus
souvent representer dans un char a six chevaux ou dans un quadrige sur
les pieces portant la meme legende FELIX PROCESSVS CONS ....
AVG N , Cohen, Nos. 62 et 63, mais parfois aussi il est en toge.
Maximin Daza n'est represente qu'en toge sur ses pieces, indiquant un
consulat comme celles ci-dessus.

19 Friedrich Kenner, dans un article sur les types monetaires (Pro-
gramm-Munzen romischer Kaiser, Numism. Zeitschrift, xvii., 1885, p. 79
et seq.), n'avait indique cette repre'sentation de 1'empereur en toge,
tenant le globe et le baton d'ivoire, que sur les pieces frappees pendant
les anne'es de consulat. L'on voit qu'elle se trouve egalement sur
d'autres.

226 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Vatelier de Nicomedie augmenta d'une le nomlre de ses
officines.

En effet 1'emission debute apres la disparition des
pieces de Galere et d'autre part si reellement la troisieme
et la quatrieme emissions qui vont etre decrites different
bien par le nombre d'une officine, la septieme, Z, il
n'est pas douteux qu'il faille placer en 312-313 la
quatrieme emission, qui presente les sept officines que
Licinius laissa ouvertes en s'emparant de 1'atelier de
Nicomedie en Mai 313.

D'ailleurs les ateliers d'Antioche et d'Alexandrie, qui
appartenaient aussi a Maximin Daza, frapperent egale-
ment deux emissions, une en 311-312 et une en 312-313.

Maximin Daza, des qu'il eut envahi la Bithynie apres
la mort de Galere, eut 1'habilete de s'attacher les popu-
lations de cette province par la suppression de 1'impot
le plus odieux. Licinius, qui s'avan9ait de son cote
avec une armee en Thrace, renonca a la guerre, et le
detroit de Chalcedoine devint la limite des deux
empires. 20

L'atelier de Nicomedie se trouva done des lors dans
les etats de Maximin Daza. Get empereur avait adopte
un precede nouveau de persecution des Chretiens,
dont Ton trouve 1'expression dans les types monetaires.
II avait en effet donne un grand developpement au culte
provincial d'Auguste et de 1'Empereur, pla9ant un

20 Lactantii de Mortibus Persecutorum, c. xxxvi. : "Ingressus (Maxi-
minus) Bithyniam quo sibi ad praesens favorem conciliaret, cum magna
omnium laetitia sustulit censum. Discordia inter ambos imperatores ac
poene bellum : diversas ripas armati tenebant. Bed conditionibus certis
pax et amicitia componitur, et in ipso freto foedus fit ac dexterae copu-
lantur." Une loi du Codex Theodosianus, liber xiii., titul. x., lex ii.,
me semble indiquer que le census en question etait I'impot de capitation
sur les populations urbaines de la province.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 227

grand pretre (Saeerdos) a la tete des Flamines de chaque
ville et en outre un pontife d'ordre plus eleve (Saeerdos
Provinciae, dp%<,6pevs eVapx t/a? ) & ^ a tete du clerge de toute
la province. 21 A 1'aide de cette organisation, il exigea
plus facilement des Chretiens 1'accomplissement des
sacrifices a 1'Empereur et sur leur refus eut une raison
pour les persecutor. 22 Le culte provincial du Genie
d'Auguste ou de 1'Empereur joua done sous son regne
un role capital qui dans les camps dut etre attribue
egalement au Genie de 1'Armee.

Or ce sont ces cultes qui sont indiques au revers des
monnaies de Nicomedie, comme de celles d'Antioche
ou de Cyzique, autres ateliers de Daza, par 1'association
des legendes : Genio Augusti, Genio Imperatoris, Genio
Caesaris, Genio Exercitus? 3 avec le type suivant : un
autel allume sur lequel un Genie, a demi nu, coiffe du
modius, verse la libation d'une patere. 24

Le Genie du Peuple Eomain etait associe a celui de
1'Empereur, en qui se personnifiait 1'Empire, et parut de
305 a 311 sur les monnaies de Lyon et d'Aquilee, en
dehors des etats de Maximin Daza.

Ce qui prouve bien que nous nous trouvons en face
d'une representation du culte provincial, qui etait princi-
palement celui de 1'empereur regnant, c'est que si
Ton examine les monnaies des 17 ateliers ou verts succes-
sivernent ou en meme temps dans 1'Empire romain a

21 Lactant,'i deMortib. persec., cap. xxxvi. ; Euseb. Hist. Eccles., lib. viii.,
cap. 14.

22 Euseb. de Martyr. Palest. Hist. Eccles., ix., 7; 13.

23 Dans les deux villes d'Occident (Lyon et Aquilee) ou le culte
provincial etait deja etabli sous Maximien Hercule, 1'autel parait
e'galemi-nt avec la legende " Genio Populi Eomani " frappee de 305 a 31 1.

24 Parmi les trois ateliers en question le Genie de 1'Armee (Genio
Exercitus') est particulier a Antioche.

228 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

1'epoque Constantinienne, Ton remarque que 1'autel
n'apparait aux pieds des Genies indiques (en y comprenant
le Genie du Peuple Komain pour Lyon et Aquilee) que
sur les monnaies sorties des ateliers des villes dans
lesquelles on celebrait ce culte. Ces villes sont celles de
Lyon, dont 1'autel au confluent de la Saone et du Khone
etait celebre, celle d' Aquilee, capitale de la Venitie, 26
ou existait le culte provincial, 26 et qui etait une tres grande
ville a 1'epoque Constantinienne ; 27 enfin les trois villes
d' Orient, Antioche, Cyzique et Nicomedie, ou le culte des
Empereurs Komains vivants avait succede a celui des rois
Asiatiques. De ces trois villes, Antioche et Nicomedie
etaient a la fois les capitales politiques et religieuses de
leurs provinces respectives ; 28 Cyzique n'etait que Tune
des villes ou se reunissait 1'assemblee provinciale de la
province d'Asie, 29 neanmoins on y celebrait en conse-
quence le culte de I'Empereur. Quant aux douze autres
villes dont les ateliers emettaient des monnaies sur
lesquelles les Genies etaient parfois represented, mais
sans avoir a cote d'eux 1'autel allume qui, associe aux
Genies, est seul caracteristique du culte provincial, ces
villes n'etaient pas le siege d'assemblees provinciales,
tout au moms dix d'entre elles ne 1'etaient pas. Kestent

25 C. Jullian, Les Transformations politiques de Vltalie sous les
Empereurs Romains, Paris, 1883, p. 172. L'inscription (6., v., 281) designe
un correcteur de Venitie sous Maximien Hercule.

26 Guiraud, Les Assemblers provinciales dans VEmpire Romain, Paris,
1887, p. 223, indique une dedicace au Patron de la Venitie et Istrie, qui
temoigne d'une assemblee provinciale.

27 Herodiani Hist., lib. viii., c. 4.

28 Mommsen et Marquardt, Manuel des Antiquite's Romaines, trad,
frangaise: Organisation de VEmpire Romain, ii., p. 526. Guiraud, loc.
cit., p. 74, et C. I. G., 2810, 1720, 3428.

29 Paul Monceaux, De Communi Provindae Asiae, Paris, 1885,
pp. 37, 38.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 229

les deux dernieres, c'est a dire Carthage, qui avait ante-
rieurement pratique le culte des rois morts, et Tarragone.
Ces villes ne pratiquaient plus a 1'epoque qui nous
occupe que le culte des Empereurs morts ou Dm', 30 au
lieu de <celui d'Auguste et de 1'Empereur regnant, qui
est le culte provincial que nous trouvons represented sur
les monnaies.

Apres la mort de Maximin Daza en 313, sa politique
religieuse fut abandonnee par Licinius qui 1'avait vaincu,
et Ton vit 1'autel disparaitre des monnaies d'Antioche, de
Cyzique et de Nicomedie, pour etre remplace par les
diverses representations de Jupiter.

Les folles ou monnaies de bronze de 1'emission presente
ont, les uns, des poids comparables a ceux des pieces de
remission precedente; d'autres sont beaucoup moins
lourds, et leurs poids tombent jusqu'a 3 gr. 55 c., avec
un poids moyen de 4 a 5 grammes. A Nicomedie, comme
a Antioche, ce fut apres la mort de Galere en 311 que
1'abaissement du poids moyen des folles se produisit
une seconde fois. 31 La premiere reduction de poids avait
eu lieu en 306-307 ; et il est a remarquer que ce fut
entre ces deux dates que le sigle CIVH, qui est une
expression de valeur, fut inscrit sur les bronzes de
Nicomedie. Toutefois il Test sur des pieces de poids
tres differents et parfois tres reduits.

30 M. C. Pallu de Lessert a, seul mis en lumiere ce fait, et c'est sur son
travail, ou a ete expose ce caractere particulier du culte des Empereurs en
Afrique et en Espagne, que je m'appuie pour etablir cette distinction
des deux ateliers monetaires des villes ou le culte des Dim avoit
remplace celui des Empereurs vivants. Cf. Cle'ment Pallu de Lessert,
Les Assemblies Provinciales tit le Culte Provincial dans V Afrique Romaine,
Paris, 1884; et Nouvelles Observations sur les Assemblies Provinciates,
Paris, 1891, pp. 6 a 8, edit. Picard.

31 J. Maurice, L 1 Atelier monelaire d'Antioche, Num. Chron., 1899,
p. 223.

VOL. III., SERIES IV. R

230 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

PKEMIERE SERIE:

L _L _J_ II J JL

SMNA SMNB SMNT SMNA SMN6 SMNS

On trouve

I. Au revers. GEN IO AVGVSTI CIVH Avec le type decrit.
II ne se trouve pas d'autel au revers des pieces
de cette serie, ou se trouve copie le type de
1'emission anterieure.

Au droit. 1. IMP C GAL . VAL MAXIMINVS P F
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 34 ; off.
A B r A 6; Voetter; FR. 14119.

2. IMP . C - VAL . LICIN - LICINIVS P F . AVG. Tete

analogue. Cohen, 37; off. A 8 ; FE. 14116,
14117, 14118; 3gr. 55 c. ; 20 m.m.

3. IMP C FL VAL - CONSTANTINVS . P F AVG.

Tete analogue. Cohen, 183; off. B r; Voetter.

Ces pieces sont semblables a celles de remission ante-
rieure, mais d'un pied monetaire inferieur.

DEUXIEME SEKIE I

I A IB |r |A |g |s

SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN

I. Au revers. GENIO AVGVSTI. Genie a demi mi, debout
a gauche, le manteau rejete derriere lui, tenant
une corne d'abondance et repandant la liqueur
d'une patere sur un autel allume a ses pieds a
gauche.

Au droit. 1. IMP . C GAL . VAL MAXIMINVS P
F AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 29 ;
off. A B A ; BE. Mus. ; Voetter.

2. IMP - C - VAL LICIN - LICINIVS P F AVG. Tete
analogue. Cohen, 23 ; off. B A ; Voetter.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 231

3. IMP C . FL - VAL CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Tete analogue. Cohen, 180 ; off A B ; Yoetter.
[PI. VI., No. 8.] (L'effigie est celle de Maximin
Daza, dans les etats duquel vient de passer
1'atelier de Nicomedie.)

L'autel aux pieds du Genie est celui dont il vient
d'etre question.

II. Au revers. GENIO . AVGVSTI Mais avec un aigle aux
pieds du Genie a gauche au lieu de 1'autel.

Au droit. 1. IMP C GAL . VAL - MAXIMINVS P -
F AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 31 ;
off. B r; Yoetter ; FR. 14013 ; 5 gr. ; 20 m.m.

2. IMP - C - VAL LICIN LICINIVS P F . AVG. Tete
analogue. Ne se trouve pas dans les descrip-
tions de Cohen ; off. A ; Yoetter.

III. Au revers. IOVI CONSERVATOR I. Jupiter nu, debout
a gauche, le manteau deploys derriere lui, tenant
une Yictoire sur un globe et appuye sur un
sceptre.

Au droit. 1. IMP C - GAL VAL - MAXIMINVS - P - F
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 117;
off. A B r A ; BR. Mus. ; Yoetter.

2. IMP C FL - VAL CONSTANTINVS P F - AVG.
Tete analogue. Piece mal decrite dans Cohen ;
off. B r A 6; BR. Mus.; 21 m.m.; FR.
14705.

IY. Meme legende et merne type du revers si ce n'est que Ton
trouve en outre un aigle tenant une couronne
en son bee aux pieds de Jupiter a gauche,

Au droit. Meme droit. Mal decrite dans Cohen ; off.
A r A 6 ; H. Mus. Y. et FR. 14706-7.

Y. An revers. VIRTVTI EXERCITVS. Mars, en habit mili-
taire, marchant a droite, portant une haste et
un trophee et ayant un bouclier au bras gauche.

Au droit. IMP - C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS P F -
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 214;
off A r ; Yoetter.

R 2

232 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

TROISIEME SERIE :

B | r| AI e | s |

MN SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN

I. Au revers. SOLI INVICTO. Le Soleil en robe longue,
debout a gauche, levant la droite et tenant la
tete de Serapis.

Au droit. 1. IMP C . GAL VAL - MAXIMINVS P F
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 161 ;
off. B r S ; FB. 14052 ; 4 gr. 65 c. ; 21 m.m.

2. IMP C VAL . LICIN LICINIVS P - F . AVG. Tete

analogue. Cohen, 159 ; off. B r ; Voetter.

3. IMP . C FL - VAL CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.

Tete analogue. Cohen, 507 ; off. B r ; Voetter.

Le culte de Serapis existait tout au moms a Alexandrie,
et 1'Egypte faisait partie des etats de Maximin Daza ;
aussi la representation de la tete de Serapis n'est-elle pas
etonnante sur les monnaies que fit emettre cet empereur.

II. Au revers. HERCVLI VICTORI. Hercule nu, debout,
incline a droite et s'appuyant sur sa massue
enveloppee de la peau de lion.

Au droit. IMP . C - GAL - VAL MAXIMINVS P F .
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 105 ;
off. A f A ; Voetter ; Tanini, supplement a
Banduri.

QUATRIEME EMISSION.

Frappee depuis le moment ou Tatelier de Nicomedie
commenga dfonetionner avec sept officines (312) jusqu'd la
prise de cette mile par Licinius apres la defaite de Maximin
Daza a Tzirallum en Thrace le 30 Avril 313 et la fuite
de cet empereur vers Tarse en Cilieie.

I/ ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 233

En effet Licinius, venant de Thrace et poursuivant
Maximin Daza, s'empara en Mai 313 de 1'atelier de Nico-
medie et il publia le 13 Juin dans cette ville son edit
de tolerance a Tegard des Chretiens*

Les monnaies de Maximin Daza furent done emises
jusqu'en Mai 313 et remission presente se distingue
seulement de la precedente par 1'addition d'une officine
(la septieme)' et des differents signes; etoile et croissant,
dans le champ du revers.

Les folles de poids reduits de 1'emission precedente
continuent a etre frappees au cours de eelle-ci.

PREMIERE SERIE :

# I*
A IB r

# I * I *

- S Z

SMN SMN' SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN

On trouve

I. Au revers. GENIO AVGVSTI. Avec le type deja decrit
et 1'autel allume caracteristique du culte
provincial.

Au droit. 1. IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS - P -F -
AVG. Cohen, 29; off. A B f A S ; FR.
14010; Musee de Berlin ; Voetter.

2. IMP C VAL LICIN LICINIVS P . F AVG.

Cohen, 23 ; off. A Z :, Voetter.

3. IMP - C FL VAL CONSTANTINVS P - F . AVG.

Cohen, 180 ; off. B S ; Musee de Berlin ;
Voetter; 22 m.m.

II. Au revers. VIRTVTI EXERCITVS. Mars marchant a
droite, portant un bouclier et un trophee et
trainant un captif par les cheveux.

Au droit. 1. IMP C FL VAL CONSTANTINVS P
F AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Piece
inedite; off. B ; Voetter.

234 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

DETJXIEME SERIE:

*l #1 *l #1
A| B I n A I

SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN

I. Au revers. SOLI INVICTO. Avec le type deja decrit
avec cette legende.

Au droit.l. IMP C GAL VAL . MAXIMINVS P F .
AVG. Cohen, 161 ; off r A S Z; BE. Mus. ;
Voetter. [PL VI., No. 9.] (Effigie de
Maximin Daza caracteristique.)

2. IMP C VAL LICIN LICINIVS P F AVG.

Cohen, 159; off B 1~ Z ; Voetter.

3. IMP C FL . VAL CONSTANTINVS - P F AVG.

Cohen, 507 ; off e; BE. Mus.

II. Au revers. HERCVLI - VICTORI. Avec le type deja decrit.

Au droiLmp - C GAL - MAXIMINVS - P F AVG.
Cohen, 105 ; off r A ; Voetter.

TROISIEME SERIE:

Sigles des revers releves
*|A ^|B

SMN SMN SMN

I. Au revers. lOVI CONSERVATORI. Avec le type deja
decrit

Audrdt. IMP - C GAL - VAL MAXIMINVS P . F .
AVG. Cohen, 117; off A B r; Voetter.

Piece unique avec le sigle A|

SMN

Au revers. SO LI . I NV I CTO. Avec le type decrit No. 1 6 1
de Maximin Daza dans Cohen. Voetter.

I/ ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 235

' Piece d'or classee par son different monetaire dans cette
emission.

Aurevers.-

IOVI CONSERVATORI AVGG. Jupiter a demi
nu, debout a gauche; le manteau sur 1'epaule
gauche^ tenant un globe surmonte d'une Victoire
et un sceptre ; a< ses pieds a gauche un aigle
tenant une couronne en son bee.

Au drmt. CONSTANTINVS P F AVG. Sa tete
lauree a droite: Cohen, 296 ; FR. 1526 ; 5 gr.
28 c. ; 20 m.m. Piece d'or de 1'espece du 60 me
a la livre.

J'ai deja fait remarquer dans mon etude sur Fatelier
de Kome que Constantin frappa des monnaies de Maxi-
min Daza jusqu'au moment de la defaite de cet empereur
par Licinius, et qu'il resta par suite etranger a la lutte
entre ces deux rivaux. La piece d'or, ainsi que les series
de bronzes qui viennent d'etre decrits, prouvent que de
son cote Maximin Daza emit les monnaies de Constantin
jusqu'au moment on il perdit ses etats.

CINQUIEME EMISSION.

Frappee depuis la prise de V atelier de Nicomedie par
Licinius en Mai 313 jusqu'd la rupture et la guerre entre
cet empereur et Constantin a la fin de Vete de 314.

En effet la premiere grande bataille entre ces
empereurs eut lieu a Cibales en Pannonie Inferieure le
8 Octobre 314, 32 mais leur entree en campagne et leur

32 II y avait en des engagements preliminairea en Pannonie : Eutrope,
x. 5. Idat. Fast. : " Volusiano II et Anniano ; his conss. bellum Cibalense
fuit die viii Idus Octob." Zosim., Hist., lib. ii., cap. 18.

236 NUMISMATIC CHKONICLE.

rupture, qui dut suspendre la frappe des monnaies de
Constantin a Nicomedie, dut etre anterieure d'au moins
un mois a cette date. Licinius se preparait depuis
quelque temps a cette guerre, cherchant a detacher de
Constantin par trahison Bassianus, qui avait epouse une
sceur de Constantin, Anastasie, et que cet empereur
avait voulu faire Cesar. Licinius ren versa pres d' JEmone
les images et les statues de Constantin, 33 ce qui constituait
une rupture ouverte avec lui. II cessa alors la frappe de
ses monnaies au debut de la campagne de 314, peut-etre
seulement au commencement de Septembre, car il avait
eu tout interet a se preparer sous main a la guerre. C'est
ce dont temoigne 1'emission presente qui comprend encore
les monnaies de Constantin.

Les bronzes qu'elle contient sont de petits folles de
poids encore en general superieur (4 gr. a 4 gr. 50 c.)
a ceux des Nummi Centenionales qui seront emis dans
les etats de Constantin aussitot apres la guerre de 314
Le Nummus Centenionalis est 1'espece monetaire qui
servira d'etalon des cette epoque; meme les bronzes
de Licinius s'en rapprocheront, jusqu'a ce qu'elle de-
vienne d'un emploi universel dans 1'empire en 317 lors
de Televation des trois Cesars, Crispus, Licinius II et
Constantin II.

33 Lenain de Tillemont, Hist, des Empereurs, iv., p. 160. Anonymus
Valesii, iv., 14,. 15 : . . . . " per Senecionem Bassiani fratrem, qui
Licinio fidus erat, in Constantinum Bassianus armatur .... Cum
Senecius auctor insidiarum posceretur ad poenam, negante Licinio, fracta
concordia est; additis etiam causis quod apud Aemonam Constantini
imagines statuasque dejecerat." Cette destruction des images et des
statues peut etre compare'e dans nos temps modernes a une insulte aux
etondards. ^3mone est en Pannonie Sup.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRB DE NICOMEDIE. 237

EXERGUES DE IEMISSION,

se presentant avec et sans la lettre N dans le champ du
revers.

PREMIERE SERIE:

A B f A E S Z

SMN

DEUXIEME SERIE:

N N N N N N N
A B f A S Z

SMN

La lettre N, qui se rencontre egalement sur les pieces
d'or et sur les bronzes, est sur les premieres une indica-
tion de valeur. II est difficile de dire s'il en est de
meme pour les monnaies de bronze.

I. Au revers. IOVI CONSERVATORI. Jupiter, a demi mi,

* debout a gauche, le manteau sur Fepaule gauche,

tenant une Victoire sur un globe et un sceptre ;

a ses pieds a gauche un aigle tenant une couronne

en son bee.

Au droit.l. IMP . C VAL LICIN LICINIVS - P - F
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 71.
P re serie, toutes les officines ; FR. 14152, 14153 ;
4 gr. 70 c. ; 14154-5-6-7-8; BE. Mus. 2 me
serie, toutes les officines; FR. 14159, 14160;
4 gr. 55 c.; 22 m.m. ; 14161-2-3; BR. Mus.
[PI. VI., No. 10.] (Effigie de Licinius, dans
les mains duquel est passe 1'atelier.) On trouve
ces pieces dans toutes les collections.

2. IMP C FL - VAL CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Sa tete lauree a droite. Piece mal decrite dans
Cohen, dont le tableau des Jovi Conservatori est

incoherent. I 6re serie, off. A B f A

FR. 14705, 14707 ; H. Mus. V. ; Voetter, 2 me
serie, off. A B r 6 S ; Voetter.

La piece suivante peut etre classee, quoique sans
exergue, parmi celles de 1'atelier de Nicomedie, a cause

238 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

de sa legende du droit, qui est pareille aux autres
legendes de Licinius inscrites sur les mounaies de cet
atelier.

Elle y a ete emise apres la prise de 1'atelier par
Licinius, car elle porte inscrits au revers les VOTIS -
V MVLTIS X de cet empereur, qui fut eleve au rang
d'Auguste en 308 et par suite celebra Faccomplissement
de ses Quinquennalia en 313. II recut des lors, comme
le prouve cette piece, le souhait de ses Decennalia.
Une inscription (C. I. L., iii., 6159) qui indique Faccom-
plissement de ses Quindecennalia en 323 est d'accord
avec ces dates.

II. Au revers. VOTIS V MVLTIS X dans une couronne
de laurier.

Au droit. IMP - C VAL . LICIN LICINIVS P - F -
AVG. Sa tete lauree a droite. Cohen, 207 ;
Yoetter.

Une couronne de laurier entoure frequemment les Vota
des divers empereurs ; on peut la considerer, semble-t-il,
com me indiquant les jeux celebres aux anniversaires de
1'elevation des empereurs.

SIXIEME EMISSION.

Frappee pendant et depuis la guerre de 314 entre
Licinius et Constantin jusqu'a la reconnaissance des trois
Cesars, Crispus, Licinius II et Constantin II, dans tout
I 9 empire le l er Mars 317.

L'on peut affirmer que Tatelier de Nicomedie emit
des monnaies pendant la guerre de 314. C'est a cette
periode de la guerre, je crois, que Ton doit rapporter les
monnaies et les medaillons qui ne furent frappes qu'aux

L* ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 239

noms des deux Licinius, Auguste et Cesar, 34 ainsi qu'on
le verra plus loin.

J'ai deja parle de ces pieces daus mon etude sur
1'atelier d'Alexandrie, 35 et montre qu'il y avait eu deux
proclamations ou elevations successives des Cesars dans
Fempire romain: une premiere apres la guerre de 314
dans les etats de 1'empereur d'Orient Licinius ; et une
deuxieme dans tout 1'empire et en particulier dans les
etats de Constantin en Occident le l er Mars 31 7. 36
Ce sont ces deux elevations successives des Cesars qui
ont donne lieu aux recits differents des historiens et
des chroniqueurs : qui indiquent, les uns (ceux qui ont
surtout puise leurs renseignements aux sources de
1'histoire d'Orient 37 ) la periode qui suivit la guerre de
314 comme etant 1'epoque de 1'elevation des Cesars; 38
tandis que les autres, notamment les Fastes d'Idace et la
Chronique Paschale 39 (qui ont pris leurs renseignements
aux archives imperiales), et le Panegyrique prononce a
Borne lors de Tanniversaire de la cinquieme annee de regne
des Cesars, placent cette elevation le l er Mars 317. 40

34 J. Maurice, IS Atelier monetaire d'Alexandrie, Numismatic Chronicle,
1902, pp. 127 et seq.

35 J'avais place leur frappe, dans mon etude sur 1'atelier d'Alexandrie,
aussitot apred la guerre de 314, mais il semble qu'on doit 1'avancer encore
un peu plus.

36 J. Maurice, L' Atelier monetaire d'Alexandrie, Numismatic Chronicle,
1902, pp. 129 et seq.

37 Zozime, Hist., lib. ii., c. 21 ; Aurelius Victor, Epitome, 58 ;
de Caes., 41.

38 Le texte de VAnonyme de Valois, v., 19, est douteux. On ne sait
de quel consulat il veut parler.

39 Idat. Fast. ; Chron. Pasch. Les Chroniques n'ont dft tenir compte que
de la date officiellement admise.

40 L'ordre des consulats eponymes, tel qu'il semble avoir ete applique a
cette epoque, n'est pas en rapport avec ces eleVations des Cesars.
Licinius II, eleve deux fois, en 314 et en 317, n'est consul eponyme qu'en
319 ; Constantin II, eleve au plus tard en 317, n'est consul eponyme qu'en
320. Crispus 1'est par contre en 318.

240 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

J'ai explique que Licinius avait cree son fils Cesar
apres la guerre de 314 pour le faire echapper aux con-
sequences de sa naissance servile, 41 et que pour obtenir
1'adhesion de Constantin a cette politique apres avoir
fait la paix avec lui il fit emettre egalement vers cette
epoque des monnaies des Cesars (Licinius II et Crispus)
avec la legende IOVI - CONSERVATORI - CAESS. 42

Mais Constantin refusa d'acquiescer aux propositions de
Licinius et ne proclama lui-meme Televation des Cesars
qu'en 317, comme le prouvent les emissions de Treves,
Aries, Londres, Kome, Tarragone, dont les emissions
de 315 et 316 ne contiennent pas de monnaies des
Cesars. 43

Mais j'ignorais encore en ecrivant mes articles sur
Alexandrie et sur Treves qu'il existait egalement des
pieces de Constantin II frappees a Nicomedie, a partir
de la guerre de 314, avec la legende du droit FL CL
CONSTANTINVS - NOB cs. La presence de ces pieces
vient confirmer de nouveau la these que j'ai mise en
avant, celle des deux elevations successives des Cesars,
1'une apres la guerre de 314 et 1'autre en 317 ; mais
elle a deux consequences nouvelles.

1 D'abord, puisque les pieces des trois Cesars, ainsi
que celles des deux Augustes, ont ete frappees dans les
ateliers de 1'empereur d'Orient Licinius aussitot apres
la guerre de 314, on doit supposer que les pieces des deux

41 J. Maurice, L' Atelier mon&aire d' Alexandrie, Num. Chron., 1902, p. 131.

42 J. Maurice, L' Atelier monetaire de Treves, M&moires de la Societe'des
Antiquaires ds Franct, 1902, p. 35 de 1'article ; le volume est en cours de
publication.

43 Meme travail, pp. 54-56. J'y indique 1'emission d'Arles caracter-
istique des annces 315-316, presentant une piece datee de 315 par le
consulat iv de Constantin ; et qui ne contient pas les monnaies des
Cesars.

L' ATELIER MONETAIEE DE NICOMEDIE. 241

Licinius, pere et fils, designes comme Auguste et Cesar
uniques, ont ete emises pendant la guerre meme de
314. 44

2 Ensuite il est necessaire de renoncer a 1'annee
316 qui avait ete considered par MM. O. Seeck 45 et
E. Ferrero, 46 dont j'ai suivi les conclusions, comme etant
celle de la naissance de Constantin II. Ce prince, dont
1'anniversaire de naissance est indique le 7 du mois
d'Aout dans les Fastes de Polemius Salvius, 47 naquit,
selon Zosime 48 et Aurelius Victor, 49 peu de temps
avant son elevation comme Cesar. Zosime dit meme:
ov Trpo 7ro\\o)v r}/jLp)v. L'epoque de sa naissance a en
consequence ete determinee par tous les auteurs comme
proche de celle de son elevation au rang de Cesar, que
Ton pla$ait au l er Mars 317, et 1'annee 316 choisie pour
celle de cette naissance. 50 Mais la donnee fondamentale
du probleme est changee si Ton admet que des monnaies
de Constantin II Cesar ont ete emises aussitot apres la
guerre de 314. C'est dans ce cas dans la periode qui
precede immediatement cette guerre, au 7 Aout 314,
qu'il faut placer la naissance de ce prince. En la fixant
a cette date on se rend mieux compte de ce qu'a dit

44 Dans I'hypothese admise de 1'elevation unique des Cesars en 317 on
devait considerer ces pieces comme emises seulement a partir de cette
date. Mais le temoignage des emissions monetaires ne laisse pas de doute
sur I'existence d'emissions diife'rentes representant les deux elevations des
Cesars.

45 O. Seeck, Die Zeitf. d. Gesetze Constantins, Zeitschrift f. Eechts-
Geschichte, 1889, vol. x., p. 186.

46 E. Ferrero, Mogli e Fili di Costantino, Accademia R. d. Scienze di
Torino. Se'ance, 13 FeVrier 1898.

47 C. I. L., i., p. 269.

48 Zosime, Hist., lib. ii., cap. 20.

49 Aurelius Victor, Epitome, xli., 4 : " iisdem diebus natum."

50 C'est 1'avis de Lenain de Tillemont, Hist, des Emperturs, iv.,
note 38, p. 638, bien qu'il avoue que la difficulte soit grande.

242 NUMISMATIC CHEONICLE.

un panegyriste contemporain, 51 qui, lors des Quinquennalia
des Cesars en 321, presente deja le jeune Constantin II
comme " jam maturate studio litteris habilis, jam felix
dextera fructuosa subscriptione laetatur." Get avance-
ment dans les lettres et dans 1'ecriture, ainsi que Finteret
qu'il est dit egalement porter aux victoires de son frere
Crispus, 52 seraient peu comprehensibles si le jeune Cesar
n'avait eu alors que 4 ans, mais sont possibles s'il avait
alors 6 ans et demi. Et le texte de Zosime se trouve
ainsi completement d'accord avec lui-meme, puisque
Ton a vu que c'etait aussitot apres la guerre de 314
que cet auteur place 1'elevation des Cesars. II en est
de meme d'Aurelius Victor. 63 La naissance de Con-
stantin II doit done remonter au mois d'Aout 314.

L'on comprend enfin la conduite de Constantin le
Grand dans ce cas aussi facilement que si Constantin II
etait ne en 316. En effet cet enfant n'etait age que de
3 a 4 mois apres la guerre de 314, et son pere ne devait
pas etre aussi presse de le declarer Cesar que Licinius
1'etait d'elever a ce rang son fils qu'il voulait affranchir
de sa naissance servile. II est facile de comprendre
que Constantin ait recule de deux ans et demi, jusqu'au
l er Mars 317, 1'elevation au rang de Cesar de ses deux
fils (le second seul etant de Fausta, dont 1'elevation de
Crispus aurait excite la jalousie), et qu'il se soit refuse
jusque-la a reconnaitre le jeune Licinius, qui etait un
batard; car la sceur de Constantin, Constantia, avait
epouse Licinius et n'avait pas d'enfants.

51 Eumen. Paneg., x., Nazarii Constantius A. dictus, cap. 37.

52 Idem. Panegyric., c. 36.

53 J. Maurice, L' Atelier mon&aire d' Alexandrie, Numismatic Chronicle,
1902, p. 129.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 243

PREMIERE PARTIE DE I/EMISSION.

Frappee pendant la guerre de 314.
Premiere serie de bronzes ^L gjL

Ces lettres du revers sont les memes que . dans 1'emis-
sion precedente. Je n'ai rencontre que les officines
A et A.

I. Au revers. \ . O M - ET . FORT . CONSER -D-D -
N N AVG ET CAES. Jupiter a demi nu,
debout regardant a gauche, le manteau deploye
derriere lui, tenant une Victoire sur un globe et
un sceptre, en face de la Fortune debout,
tourelee, qui tient une corne d'abondance et un
gouvernail pose sur un globe.

Audroit.D D N N IOVII LICINII INVICT
AVG ET CAES. Bustes laures et drapes, en
regard, des deux Licinius, soutenant une statue
de la Fortune. Cohen, vii., p. 210, No. 1 ; BR.
Mus. ; H. Mus. V. ; Off. A-A.

Le medaillon d'or suivant doit se placer dans cette

I A
serie avec -W

II. Au revers. IOVI CONSERVATORI LICINIORVM . AVG -
ET CAES. Jupiter a demi nu, assis de face,
tenant un sceptre et une Victoire sur un globe.

Au droit.D D N - N LICINIVS . P - F AVG ET .
LI GIN I VS CAESAR. Bustes nimbes (effigies
vraies) des deux Licinius pere et fils, ayant le
manteau imperial agrafe sur 1'epaule droite.
Une etoile au dessus de chacun d'eux.

244 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Les nimbes qui entourent les tetes des empereurs
semblent avoir encore pour les Licinius, qui s'intitulent
princes Joviens, une signification paienne et indiquer
la divinite de 1'Empereur. Plus tard, sous Constantin,
de 324 a 326, le nimbe se retrouve sur plusieurs pieces
et medaillons 54 a une epoque ou la signification paienne
de toutes les formules et de tous les symboles se perd,
ou les formules comme PROVIDENT1AE - AVGG ne sont
plus frappees que par imitation des monnaies anterieures.
Le nimbe a cette epoque semble done devenir un simple
symbole de la souverainete imperiale. Mais il n'en etait
pas encore de meme pour Licinius en 314, c'est a dire
a 1'epoque ou son adversaire Constantin adoptait seule-
ment le Christianisme comme religion officielle. 55

DEUXIEME SERIE:

SLI* ^I B 3H r 11* ^l e a*ls ILL?

SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN

Cette serie monetaire, ou Ton ne trouve encore qu'un
seul Auguste et un seul Cesar, doit pour cette raison
avoir ete emise pendant la guerre de 314.

De nombreuses fautes d'orthographe, certaines sem-
blables a celles que commettraient des ouvriers barbares
ou etrangers, d'autres etant de simples suppressions de
lettres, d'autres exprimant la contraction du AE en E,
se remarquent sur les monnaies de Nicomedie.

54 Cohen, vii., No. 657 de Constantin le Grand et 104 de Constantin II.

55 M. Babelon a presente a 1'Acade'mie des Inscriptions et Belles
Lettres dans la seance du 27 Mai 1903 un admirable medaillon de
Constantin ou le buste de cet empereur se trouve accole a celui du
Soleil, et qui porte en legende ADVENTVS AVGG - NN en
Thonneur de 1'entree a Milan de Constantin et Licinius en Fe'vrier 313
pour la conference oil fut etablie la paix religieuse. Constantin se laissa
done representer couime paien jusqu'en 313.

L'ATELIEB MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 245

Je releverai quelques exemples :
NOV CS pour NOB CAES.
PROVIDENTIAE CAES pour CAESS.
SECVRITAS REIPVBLICG pour REIPVBLICAE.
EQVES pour EQVIS.
CAVS pour CAES.
VIRTVS CAESARjN^ pour CAESARVM.

Puis des erreurs de noms propres :
AALMATIVS pour AELMATIVS.
CONSTANTINOPOIJ pour CONSTANTINOPOLIS.

Dans les exergues SMNM ou SMNP , M et P sont
a la place de lettres grecques d'officines.

Une partie des confusions de lettres que Ton remarque
sur les monnaies de Nicomedie a ete relevee egale-
ment sur les monnaies d'Antioche par le Colonel
Voetter.

On trouve

I. Au revers.\QV\ . CONSERVATOR I AVG. Jupiter a
demi nu, debout a gauche, le manteau rejete en
arriere, tenant une Victoire sur un globe et un
sceptre.

Au droit.Vk . CO LICINIVS NOV (sic) CS. Son
buste laure et drape a gauche. Piece inedite.
Voetter ; off. s.

Avec une etoile en plus dans le champ du revers

SMN
VOL. III., SEEIES IV.

246 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

II. Au revers. IOVI CONSERVATORI CAES. Memetype.

Au droit. LICINIVS - NOB CAES. Son buste laure et
drape a gauche. Piece inedite. Musee de
Berlin.

Ces pieces pourraient aussi avoir ete f rappees par des
barbares aussitot apres la guerre en imitation des pieces
qui parurent alors a Nicomedie, mais il semble plus
naturel d'admettre, a cause de la designation d'un seul
Auguste et Cesar, qu'elles ont ete emises a Nicomedie
pendant la guerre. Le jeune Licinius reput sur les
monnaies pendant et aussitot apres la guerre les noms
de Valerius Constantinus. II est a remarquer que ces
noms sont ceux, a part le Gentilice, de Flavia Valeria
Constantia, femme de Licinius et soeur de Constantin.
Ne faut-il pas voir dans ce fait une nouvelle confirmation
de la tentative faite par Licinius pour adopter le fils
qu'il avait eu d'une esclave et le faire echapper aux
consequences de sa naissance servile ?

DEUXIEME PARTIE DE I/EMISSION.

Frappee apres la guerre de 314 depuis la fin de Vannee
314 ou depuis le l er Janvier 315, date a laquelle la
reconciliation de Licinius et de Constantin fut rendue
offieielle par la prise en commun du consulat par ces deux
empereurs jusquau l er Mars 317, date de la reconnaissance
des trois Cesars dans tout Vempire.

Ce qui permet de marquer les limites de cette emission,
c'est la comparaison avec les emissions synchroniques
d'Alexandrie et de Cyzique. L'on frappa dans ces trois
ateliers des legendes lovi Conservatori avant la guerre
de 314 ; lovi Conservatori Augg. ou Caess. apres la

I/ ATELIER MONETAIBE DE NICOMEDIE. 247

guerre en 315 et 316; et encore de 317 a 320 avec de
nouveaux differents monetaires; enfin de nouveau la
legende lovi Conservatori de 320 a 324. 56

PEEMIERE SERIE :

I. Au revers.\OV\ CONSERVATORI AVGG. Jupiter a
demi nu, debout a gauche, le manteau sur
1'epaule gauche, tenant une Victoire sur un
globe et appuye sur un sceptre.

Au droit. 1. IMP L1CINIVS AVG. Son buste laure a
gauche avec le manteau imperial; tenant le
foudre d'une main et de 1'autre un sceptre et un
globe. Cohen, 116; off. A B f A S Z ;
FR. 14203-4, 3 gr. 30 c. ; 19 m.m. ; 14205-6-7 ;
3 gr. ; 19 m.m. ; 14208-9 ; BE. Mus. ; Yoetter.
[PL VI., No. 11.] (Effigie de Licinius, dans les
etats de qui se trouve 1'atelier.)

2. IMP CONSTANT! NVS AVG- Buste analogue. Piece

voisine de Cohen, 301 ; off. A B 1~ A S
_Z ; FR. 14727 ; 3 gr. 60 c. ; 19 m.m. ;
BR. Mus. ; Voetter. [PI. VI., No. 12.]

3. FL VN CRISPVS NO CAS (sic). Son buste laure,

drape et cuirasse a droite, Decrite par Gnecchi ;
off. A.

Cette piece, d'apres son type, n'est pas barbare. La
tete de Crispus semble empruntee a Maximin Daza, dont
Teffigie servit encore apres sa mort.

a6 II y a en effet une emission de la legende Jovi Conservatori sans les
Cesars et qui continue jusqu'a la frappe des monnaies de Valens
pendant la guerre de 314 ; et il y a une frappe de la legende Jovi
Conservatori Augg. qui continue a presenter a Alexandrie les memes
sigles du revers que la precedente, puis vient de nouveau la legende Jovi
Conservatori avec les trois Cesars et Martinianus.

a 9

b ^

2i8. NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

4. VA CO LICINIVS N CS. Son buste laure et

drape a gauche. Piece inedite. Gnecchi; off. s.

5. FL CL CONSTANTINVS NOV CS. Son buste

laure et drape a gauche. Piece inedite. BR.
Mus. [PL VL, No. 13.]

Le buste de cette piece n'est pas le portrait de Con-
stantln II. L'effigie de ce prince, enfant age seulement
de quelques mois, ne pouvait pas encore etre parvenue a
Nicomedie, d'autant plus que Licinius frappait les
monnaies de Crispus et de Oonstantin II sans 1'autori-
sation de Constantin.

DEUXIEME SEEIE.

Cette serie se rapproche beaucoup de la precedente.
Elle ne presente comme different monetaire nouveau
qu'un point dans le champ au dessus de la lettre
d'officine, et il ne semble pas toujours present.

_ _ _ _ _ _

SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN

1. Au revers. PROVIDENTIAE CAESS. Jupiter nu,
debout a gauche, le manteau rejete sur Fepaule
gauche, tenant un globe surmonte d'une Victoire
et un sceptre.

Au droit.l. D N VAL - LICIN LICINIVS NOB C.
Son buste laure, drape et cuirasse a droite.
Cohen, 37, en retablissant la legende, dont une
partie a ete oubliee dans Cohen ; off. A B f
A 6 S Z ; FE. 14407-8-9-10-11 ; 3 gr. 90 c. ;
19 m.m. ; 1441^-3-4-5; BE. Mus.; au Musee
de Turin, sans point dans le champ. ("PI. VII.,
No. 1.]

2. Meme legende. Son buste laure a gauche avec le
manteau imperial, tenant de la droite le foudre
ou la mappa, et de la gauche un globe avec un
sceptre. Cohen, 38 ; off. A A S ; BE. Mus. ;
Yoetter.

L' ATELIER MONET AIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 249

L'on remarquera que si les legendes sont changees
d'une serie a 1'autre de cette emission, les types restent
les memes. L'on trouve le meme Jupiter au revers.

3. b N FL IVL - CRISPVS NOB CAES. Son buste

laure, drape et cuirasse a droite. Cohen, 114 ;
off. A B 1~ A S ; PR. 15474-5 ; BR. Mus. ;
Voetter.

4. Meme legende. Son buste laure a gauche, avec le

manteau imperial, tenant le foudre ou la mappa
de la droite et un globe avec un sceptre de la
gauche. Piece inedite ; off. A ; Yoetter.

5. D N FL CL CONSTANTINVS - NOB . C. Son

buste laure, drape et cuirasse a droite. Cohen,
161; FR. 15762; BR. Mus.; Yoetter; off.
B A Z.

6. Meme legende. Son buste laure a gauche, avec le

manteau imperial, tenant le foudre ou la mappa
de la droite et un foudre avec un sceptre de
la gauche. Cohen, 162; BR. Mus.; off. B.

La legende Providentiae Caess. avait encore une signi-
fication paienne sous Licinius, etant associee au type
de Jupiter, tandis que, lorsque Constantin eut pris
1'Orient en 324, elle continua a paraitre sur les monnaies
mais associee a la Porte de Camp et n'ayant plus de sens
religieux defini.

SEPTIEME EMISSION.

Frappee depuis la date de la reconnaissance des trois
Cesars, Crispus, Constantin II et Licinius II, dans tout
rempire le l er Mars 317, jusqud la prise de Vatelier de
Nicomedie par Constantin quelques jours apres la bataille
de Chalcedoine, qui est du 18 Septembre 324. 57

57 Idatii Fasti; Calendrier de Philocalus, C. I. L., i., p. 350: "x kal.
Oct." La Chronique Paschale donne une date fausse.

250 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

En effet, a partir du debut de cette emission, les
monnaies des trois Cesars portent an droit leurs noms
orthographies comme dans les autres ateliers et qui
indiquent des frappes uniformes dans tout I'empire. En
outre, des trois series qui composent remission, 1'une
se continue evidemment jusqu'a la chute de Licinius,
puisqu'elle comprend les monnaies de Martinianus, et
une autre comprend les Vota X des Cesars, qui ne furent
inscrits qu'a la fin de remission de 320 a 324 dans
d'autres ateliers de I'empire. 58

Martinianus, qui d'apres Theophanes 69 regna trois mois,
fut cree Cesar selon les auteurs, et Auguste d'apres ce
que nous apprennent les monnaies, par Licinius, quand
cet empereur avait deja ete vaincu par Constantin a
Hadrianopolis et etait assiege dans Byzance par terre
et par mer. Licinius se sauva alors de Byzance a
Chalcedoine en Bithynie et tandis qu'il surveillait le
Bosphore il envoya Martinianus surveiller 1'Hellespont
a Lampsaque. 60 Mais vaincu de nouveau a Chalcedoine,
il se refugia a Nicomedie ou il se rendit a Constantin,
qui lui laissa momentanement la vie sauve ; mais bientot,
en 325, Constantin le fit executer par ses soldats, peut-
etre a 1'occasion d'une revolte, ainsi que Martinianus
refugie d'apres 1'Anonyme de Yalois en Cappadoce. 61

Mais tous deux furent en tous cas dechus du rang
d'Augustes aussitot apres la reddition de Licinius en
Septembre 324. II en resulte que cette emission fut
alors suspendue, au moins en partie, et que les monnaies

58 J. Maurice, IS Atelier monetaire de Siscia, Num. Chron., 1900,
pp. 342-343.

59 Theophanis Chronographia.

60 Les recits les plus complets sont ceux d'Aur. Victor, Epitome, 59, et
de Zosirae, Hist., liv. ii., chaps. 25 et 27.

61 Anonymus Valesii, v., 29.

L* ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 251

de Martinianus ne furent emises qu'a Nicomedie et peut-
etre a Cyzique, ateliers qui furent seuls au pouvoir
de Licinius et de Martinianus reunis. 62

Les pieces de bronze de cette emission sont de
1'espece du Nummus Centenionalis. Les monnaies d'or sont
de 1'espece du 60 me a la livre d'or ; elles portent parfois
la lettre N dans le champs du revers ; cette lettre est
une indication de valeur.

PREMIERE SERIE.

Cette serie est parallele a celle qui comprend a
Antioche les monnaies de 1'imperatrice Ste Helene
frappees aussitot apres la guerre de 324.

Q| A Q| B Q|f Q|A Q! Q|S g^Z

SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN SMN

J'indique 1'officine Z qui doit exister, mais je ne
1'ai pas trouvee.

I. Au revers. lOVI - CONSERVATORI . AVGG. Avec le
type deja decrit avec cette legende dans
remission precedente.

Au droit. 1. IMP LICINIVS AVG. Buste deja decrit.
Cohen, 116; Musee de Turin; off. B.

2. Je n'ai pas trouve la piece de Constantin analogue a
celle de la serie precedente.

II. Au revers. IOVI CONSERVATORI CAESS. Avec le
type deja decrit.

62 La mer n'appartenait plus a Licinius apres la victoire de la flotte de
Crispus en Juillet ou Aout, et 1'Egypte, completement isolee, ne dut pas
recevoir 1'ordre d'emettre de monnaies de Martinianus, et en effet on n'en
trouve pas dans ses emissions. Cf. O. Seeck, Zur Chronologie des Kaisers
Licinius, Hermes, 1901, pp. 28 a 35 ; J. Maurice, L' Atelier d'Alexandrie,
Num. Chron.y 1902, p. 133.

252 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Audroit.l. IMP . CONSTANTINVS . AVG. Son buste
laure et drape a gauche, tenant un globe et un
sceptre. Piece inedite. Off. A; Musee de
Berlin.

2. D N VAL - LICIN LICINIVS NOB . C. Son

buste laure a droite avec le manteau imperial,
tenant le foudre dans la droite et de la gauche
un globe et un sceptre. Musee de Turin.

3. D N FL IVL CRISPVS NOB CAES. Son buste

laure a gauche, avec le manteau imperial, tenant
le foudre dans la droite et de la gauche un globe
et un sceptre. Cohen, 80 ; FB. 15545 ; off. B.

4. II doit exister une piece analogue de Constantin II.

DEUXIEME SEEIE:

x
nr

X IX 83

nr nr

SMNA SMNB SMNT SMNA

I. Au revers. IOVI CONSERVATOR!.^ Jupiter nu, debout
a gauche, le manteau sur 1'epaule gauche, tenant
une Yictoire sur un globe et un sceptre sur-
monte d'un aigle ; a ses pieds a gauche un aigle
tenant une couronne en son bee et a droite un
captif assis.

Au droit.l. IMP C VAL LICIN LICINIVS P F .
AVG. Son buste radie, drape et cuirasse a
droite. Cohen, 74; off. A B r; FB. 14174;
3 gr. 45 c. ; 20 m.in. ; 14175-6; Voetter.

I x

Variete | II [PL VII., No. 2.]
SMNA

2. IMP . C FL VAL - CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Son buste radie, drape et cuirasse a droite.
Cohen, 292; off. A; FB. 14709; off. A;
H. Mus. V. ; off. r A ; Yoetter, B 1~.

X
63 Pour le chiffre up je renvoie aux articles originaux dans mon

etude sur L' Atelier d'Alexandrie, Num. Chron., 1902, p. 134.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 253

3. D - N VAL LICIN LICINIVS - NOB . C. Son buste

casque et cuirasse a gauche, tenant une haste
sur 1'epaule et un bouclier. Cohen, 21 ; off.
A-B r A; BE. Mus. ; FE. 14389-90; 2 gr.
90 c. ; 18 m.m. ; Voetter.

4. D N FL IVL CRISPVS NOB CAES. Son buste

laure et drape a droite. Cohen, 77; off. r ;
BE. Mus. ; FE. 15442 ; Yoetter.

5. D N FL CL CONSTANTINVS - NOB C. Son

buste laure et drape a droite. Cohen, 133 ; off.
A A; FE. 15747 ; Musee de Turin ; Voetter.

6. D N - MARTIN I ANVS P F - AVG. Son buste

radie et drape a droite. Cohen, 1 ; off. B l~ A ;
BE. Mus. ; Voetter. Avec sa tete radiee a
droite. Cohen, 5 ; off. r ; coll. Gnecchi.

7. D N . M . MARTIN I ANVS P F AVG. Son buste

radie et drape a droite. Cohen, 3. Les officines
T et A sont indiquees par Cohen. Les officines
P et T, si elles sont bien observees, indiquent
des pieces fausses.

8. D N M MARTINIANO P F . AVG. Son buste

radie, drape et cuirasse a droite. Cohen, 4 ;
off. A B r; H. Mus. V.; Musee Brera; FE.

TROISIEME SERIE:

I I I

MNA SMNB SMNT SMNA

I. Au revers. CAESARVM NOSTRORVM. Autour d'une
couronne de laurier dans laquelle on lit VOT X.
(Cette couronne de laurier est sans doute une
couronne agonistique indiquant les jeux qui
devaient etre celebres aux anniversaires des
Cesars, lors de raccomplissement de leurs Quin-
quennalia, Decennalia, etc.)

Au droit.l. CRISPVS NOB CAES. Son buste laure
et drape a droite. Cohen, 42 ; off. r ;
H. Mus. V.

2, II doit exister une piece analogue de Constantin II.

254 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Quant a Licinius II, il n'est pas sur que le chiffre
des Vota qui lui sont souhaites ait coincide dans les
etats de son pere avec ceux des Vota des autres Cesars,
ce prince ayant pu etre considere comme cree plus tot
Cesar.

II. Au revere. DOM I NOR NOSTROR - CAESS. Autour
d'une couronne de laurier dans laquelle on lit
VOT X.

Au droit.CR\SPVS NOB CAES. Son buste laure et
drape a droite. Cohen, 65 ; off. B; FR. 15439 ;
3 gr. 50 c. ; 20 m.m.

PIECES D'OR DE LA SEPTIEME EMISSION.

Avec 1'exergue ^L

On trouve

I. Au revers. lOVI CONSERVATORI. Jupiter, a demi
nu, debout a gauche, sur un cippe, le manteau
sur 1'epaule gauche, tenant une Victoire sur un
globe et appuye sur un sceptre ; a ses pieds a
gauche un aigle tenant une couronne en son bee ;
sur le cippe on lit SIC X SIC XX.

Au droit. LICINIVS AVGVSTVS. Sa tete lauree a droite.
Cohen, 61 ; FR. 1505 ; 5 gr. 25 c. ; 21 m.m.

Licinius, cree Auguste en 308 a la conference de
Carnuntum, celebra ses Vota X des 1'annee 318; c'est
ce que confirme la celebration de ses Quindecennalia
indiquee par une inscription avant la chute de Licinius,
c'est a dire en 323. 64 En meme temps que ses Vota X
on lui souhaita par anticipation les Vota XX.

64 C. I. ., iii., 6159 ; J. Maurice, L' Atelier monMre de Treves.
Me'moires de la Socie'te nationale des Antiquaires de France, seance du
16 Juillet, 1902.

I/ ATELIER MONETAIBE DE NICOMEDIE. 255

II. Meme legende du revers et meme type mais sans le cippe
ni les Vota.

Au droit. Meme legende et meme tete. Cohen, 63 ;

FB - SM'NA 5 & 20 c - '> 21 m - m - '> H - Mus - v -

5gr.30c.;21m.m. .,

L'on voit que la lettre N ne peut pas etre 1'initiale
du mot vojjbio-^a puisqu'elle est inscrite sur des pieces
de I'espece du 60 me a la livre. Mais elle doit etre un
signe de valeur.

Ce sont les Vota deja indiques qu'on retrouve sur une
piece reprise de Banduri par Cohen.

III. Au revers. SIC . X - SIC XX SMNB - sur unbouclier,

dessus un aigle.

Au droit. LICINIVS AVGVSTVS. Sa tete ceinte d'une
couronne de perles. Cohen, 157, piece d'or
reprise de Banduri.

Licinius pere celebra ses Vota X des 1'annee 318 inais
on continua a inscrire la foramle SIC X - SIC XX sur
ses monnaies pendant toute cette emission jusqu'en 324,
puisqu'on ne trouve pas d'autre formule sur les pieces
de Nicomedie, atelier qui lui appartint jusqu'aux
derniers jours de son regne. 65 II en resulte que la
piece suivante a pu etre frappee jusqu'en Tannee 324.

IV. Au revers. lOVI CONS LICINI AVG. Jupiter debout

sur un cippe, regardant a gauche, tenant une
Victoire sur un globe et appuye sur un sceptre ;
a ses pieds un aigle qui tient une couronne en
son bee ; sur le cippe on lit : SIC X SIC XX.

65 Les Vota XXX lui furent souhaites a Thessalonica, mais Thessalonica
etait dans les mains de Constantin, et Licinius put lui emprunter le
chiffre de ees Vota.

256 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Au droit.UC\H\VS - AVGVSTVS. Sa tete lauree a
droite. Cohen, 131 ; Musee de Berlin ; Cohen

indic l ue SMNA
Exergue

Licinius etait un prince de la dynastie Jovienne,
ayant ete adopte par Galere, qui 1'avait ete lui-meme par
Diocletien. C'est ce qui explique la quantite de repre-
sentations de Jupiter et de legendes IOVI etc., que
Ton trouve sur ses monnaies, ou elles ont rernplace les
Genies qui y etaieut represented du temps de Maximin
Daza.

V. Au r ever s. Meme legend e. Jupiter est assis de face sur
le cippe, tenant le globe surmonte d'une Victoire
et un sceptre; a ses pieds 1'aigle tenant une
couronne ; sur le cippe SIC X SIC XX.

Au droit. LICINIVS - AVG OB D V FILII SVI.
Son buste, tete nue, drape de face. Cohen,
128; FK., or, 1506; 5 gr. 12 c. ; 20 m.m. ;
Musee de Berlin ; H. Mus. V. ; 5 gr. 30 c. ;
22 m.m.

Les Vota X des trois Cesars ont ete inscrits sur les
monnaies dans les etats de Licinius en 324. Mais la
formule (ob Decennalia Vota Filii sui) appliquee a Licinius
jeune par 1'empereur d' Orient a une portee speciale. II
ne s'agit plus en effet de voeux souhaites ou suscepta ;
mais de voaux acconiplis ou soluta. Peut-etre cette formule
est-elle la consecration de 1'elevation de Licinius II au
rang de Cesar en 314.

La piece suivante indiqne en effet que Ton compta
au cours de 1'emission presente les Vota V de ce Cesar.

L'ATELIEE MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 257

VI. Au revers. \OV\ . CONSERVATORI CAES. Jupiter a

demi nu, assis de face, sur une base, tenant une
Victoire et un sceptre ; a ses pieds un aigle
tenant une couronne en son bee; sur la base
on lit : SIC V SIC X.

Au droit.D - N VAL LICIN LICINIVS - NOB - C.
Son buste, tete nue, drape de face. Cohen,
28:; Musee de Berlin; Cohen indique les

officines A f G. Exergue SMNA

VII. Au revers. lOVI CONSERVATORI. Avec le type de

Jupiter debout tenant une Victoire sur un
globe et un sceptre ; a ses pieds a gauche un
aigle tenant une couronne.

Au droit. D N VAL - LICIN LICINIVS NOB C.
Son buste laure et drape a droite. Cohen, 20 ;

FR. 1510; avec Q^ e ; 5 gr. 30 c. ; 21 m.m.
[PL. VII., No. 3.] (Effigie de Licinius jeune.)

VIII. Au revers. SOLI INVICTO. Le Soleil radie, debout

a gauche, en robe longue ; levant la droite et
tenant un globe.

Au droit.D N . FL IVL - CRISPVS NOB - CAES.
Son buste laure, drape et cuirasse a droite.
Cohen, 135; FR. 1561; 5 gr. 32 c. ; 21 nun.

Exer ^ e SlvfNA

Les legendes Soli Invieto et Soli Invieto Comiti sont les
plus frequentes sur les monnaies de Constantin et de
Crispus: la premiere est ici inscrite sur cette piece de
Crispus en opposition avec la legende Jovi Conservatori
sur les pieces des Licinius.

IX. Au revers. VICTORIAE AVGG N N. Victoire debout

a droite ecrivant sur un bouclier pose sur un
cippe VOT X MVL XX.

Au droit. LICINIVS AVGVSTVS. Sa tete lauree a droite.
Piece d'or de M. Gnecchi, decrite par lui dans la
Hiv. It. di Numismatica, 1896, fasc. ii., No. 291.

Exergue

258 NUMISMATIC CHKONICLE.

X. Meme legende et meme type du revers.

Au droit. CONSTANTJNVS P F AVG. Latetelauree
a droite. Cohen, 624, autrefois Coll. Rollin.

J'ai fait plusieurs fois remarquer que dans les etats de
Constantin ses Vota etaient attribues a Licinius. L'on
trouve ici une application inverse du meme principe.
Ce sont les Vota de Licinius qui dans les etats de cet
empereur a Nicomedie sont appliques a Constantin. En
effet les Vota X de Constantin furent inscrits sur les
monnaies en 315 et 316, c'est a dire avant 1'emission
presente,

XI. Au revers. VICTORIA - AVGQ ET - CAESS N N.
Victoire assise sur des armes, tenant un bouclier
sur lequel on lit VOT XX ; aupres d'elle un
trophee au pied duquel est un captif.

Au droit. CONSTANTINVS P F AVG. Sa tete lauree
a droite. Cohen, 591 ; Ancien Catalogue du
Cabinet de France.

Les Vota XX de Licinius lui furent appliques au
moins a partir de raccomplissement de ses Vota XV
en 323. Toutes ces pieces sont de Tespece du 60 me a la
livre d'or, qui fut supprimee comme monnaie courante
apres la prise de 1'atelier de Nicomedie par Constantin
en 324.

HUITIEME EMISSION.

Frappee depuis T elevation de Constance II au rang de
Cesar le 8 Novembre 324 jusqu'a la mort de Fausta, qui
suivit eelle de Crispus en Septembre 326. 66

En effet cette emission est caracterisee par la dis-
parition des monnaies de Licinius, vaincu et detrone par

66 J. Maurice, L' Atelier d' Antioche, Num. Chron., LS99, p. 237.

L'ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 259

Constantin en Septembre 324, 67 et par I'apparition des
monnaies de Constance II. On y trouve en outre les
pieces de Crispus et celles de Fausta qui ne parurent
qu'au cours de cette emission.

Constantin s'etant empare de Nicomedie et y ay ant
sejourne des le mois de Septembre 324, il est impossible
de dire s'il n'y fit pas des lors frapper cette emission?
moins les pieces de Constance II et de Fausta.

Quoiqu'il en soit, les monnaies de Constance II ne
parurent qu'apres Televation de ce prince au rang de
Cesar le 8 Novembre 324, et Ton dut commencer a
emettre en meme temps a 1'occasion de ce couronne-
ment celles de Fausta, mere de Constantin II, et de
Constance II.

Cette emission presente une officine de moins que les
precedentes.

Les pieces de bronze sont de 1'espece du Nummus
Centenionalis, designe aussi dans certains textes comme
denier Constantinien, dont le poids moyen est de
3 gr. 50 c.

Les fetes des Vicennalia de Constantin furent celebrees
au cours de cette emission et donnerent lieu a la frappe
de nombreuses monnaies et medaillons. 0. Seeck a
fait remarquer qu'un temoignage formel indique que ces
Vicennalia furent fetes une premiere fois a Nicomedie
en 325 68 et une seconde a Eome en 326. II dut en
etre de meme des Decennalia des Cesars en 326 et 327.
Les Vota X des Cesars leur ont ete deja attribues par
anticipation au cours de 1'emission precedente; mais-

67 La bataille de Chalce'doine est du 18 Septembre 324.

68 O. Seeck, Zeitschr. d. Savigny-Stiftung fur Bechtsgesch. Bom., Abth.
x., p. 186. Hieronymi Chr., " Anno 2342 Constantini 20 vicennalia
Constantini Nicomediae facta, et sequent! anno Romae edita."

260

NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

certaines pieces qui celebrent exclusivement leurs Deeen-
nalia sont celles oil Ton trouve les noms des Cesars
au revers et au droit leurs tetes diademees, les yeux leves
au ciel, sans legende ; il en sera question plus loin.
Elles furent frappees en 326.

Tableau des Exergues de V Emission.
Premiere serie :

SMNA SMNB SMNT SMNA SMN6 SMNS

Deuxieme serie :

SMNA* SMNB* SMNT* SMNA*

Troisieme serie :

MNA MNB MNT

Quatrieme serie :

MNA* MNB*

Cinquieme serie :
_L J.

NA NB

Sixieme serie :
NA* NB*

MNP*

NT*

MNA

MNj

J_
NA

NA*

MN*

SMNS*

MNS

MNS*

_
NS

NS*

L'on voit que chaque serie d'exergues est repetee deux
fois, avec et sans points. L'atelier de Nicomedie y est

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 261

designe par la lettre N comme dans les emissions
precedentes. On y lit parfois les initiales des mots
S(aera) M(oneta) et Ton y trouve toujours une lettr-e
d'officine grecque.

I. Au revers. PROVIDENTIAE AVGG. Porte de camp
sans battants surmontee de deux tours; au
dessus une etoile.

Au droit. 1. CONSTANTINVS AVG. Sa tete Iaur6e a
droite. Cohen, 454.

l fere serie] f BR. Mus. ; H. Mus. V.

3 me serie > A B f A 6 S <FR. 14793-4-5; BR. Mus.
5 me serie J IFR. 14831-2-3^4.

Ce sont les series sans les points.

2. Meme legende. Son buate diademe et drape 4 droite.

Cohen, 455 ; P re serie, off. B f 6 ; BR. Mus.

3. CONSTANTINVS - MAX AVG. Son buste diademe et

drape a droite. Cohen, 452 ; I 6re serie, off.
A B F~ A S ; H. Mus. Y. ; Voetter.

Des bustes diademes de Constantin et de 1'imperatrice
Saint e Helene se montrent sur les monnaies des le debut
de cette emission. J'ai fait remarquer dans une etude
sur Treves 69 que la comparaison deg emissions des divers
ateliers de la periode Constantinienne conduit a admettre
que ce fut apres sa conquete de 1' Orient sur Licinius que
Constantin le Grand adopta le diademe pour les effigies
imperiales. II en orna d'abord la tete de Fimperatrice
Sainte Helene, quand la guerre d'Orient etait a peine
achevee, apres sa victoire de Chalcedoine, 70 puis il

09 Memoires de la Socitftf nationale des Antiquaires de France, 1903, en
cours de publication, pages 52 a 55 de 1'article.

70 Sur les monnaies d'Antioche, J. Maurice, IS Atelier d'Antioche, Num.
Chron., 1899, p. 231.

VOL. III., SERIES IV. T

262 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

1'adopta pour lui, et en 325, au plus tard, pour les

Cesars. 71

II. Au revers. PROVIDENTIAE CAESS. Meme type du
revers.

Au droit. 1. FL - IVL . CRISPVS NOB - C. Son buste
laure et drape a gauche. Cohen, 123. l fere serie,
off. B-r S; BE. Mus. ; Voetter; FR. 15481.
3 me serie, Fr. 15480, off. B.

2. FL IVL CRISPVS NOB CAES. Son buste laure,

drape et cuirasse a gauche. Cohen, 125. P re
serie, off. A B r ; Voetter ; Fr. 15489.

3. CONSTANTINVS - IVN NOB C. Son buste laure,

drape et cuirasse a gauche. Cohen, 165.
l fere serie, off. A 1~ A ; BR. Mus. ; Voetter.
2 me serie, off. A B f S ; Fr. 15759-60;
15771-2; Voetter; BR. Mus. [PI. VIL, No.
4.] (Effigie de Constantin II.) 3 me serie, off.
S ; FE. 15778 ; 3 gr. ; 17 m.m. ; BR. Mus.

Je n'indique que les officines que j'ai vues. mais il est
probable qu'on a du frapper des series completes.

4. Meme legende du droit. Son buste laure, drape et

cuirasse a droite. Cohen, 164. La cuirasse
n'est represented que par quelques series.
2 me serie, off. A B f -8 ; FR. 15769; BR.

Mus.

5. FL IVL CONSTANTIVS - NOB C. Son buste

laure, drape et cuirasse a gauche. Cohen, 167.
l fere serie, off. A S ; BR. Mus. ; Voetter.
2 me serie, off. B-A S ; FR. 16227-8 ; 3 gr. 40 c. ;

19 m.m. ; Voetter.

71 Sur toutes les pieces et me'daillons frappes en 1'honneur des
Decennalia. Le Professeur O. Seeck avait deja reconnu que 1'adoption
du diademe e'tait poste'rieure a la clmte des Licinius. Seeck, Zu den
Festmiinzen Constantino und seiner Familie, Zeitsch. f. Numism., xxi.,
p. 27.

I/ ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 263

3 me serie, off. A S; FR. 16235; Voetter.

4 me serie, off. B f A S ; BB. Mus. ; Voetter.

[PI. VII., No. 5.]
6 me serie, off. B A S ; Voetter.

6. Meme legende du droit. Son buste laure, drape
et cuirasse a droite. Cohen, 168. Meme
remarques que plus haut sur la cuirasse.
2 me serie, off. A-S; FB. 16227-8.

L'etude des monnaies de bronze de Nicomedie et
de Heraclee de Thessalie permet de donner la raison
pour laquelle les legendes PROVIDENTIAE AVGG et
PROVIDENTIAE CAESS avec les Augustes au pluriel
furent frappees lorsqu'il n'y avait plus qu'un Auguste
dans Fempire. L'on voit en effet que la seconde de ces
formules fut inscrite sur les monnaies de Nicomedie de
315 a 316, et la premiere, avec la porte de camp au lieu de
la representation de Jupiter comme type du revers, sur
celles de Heraclee de Thessalie de 315 a 320, sur les
monnaies de Licinius principalement. Ces deux ateliers
appartinrent a Licinius jusqu'a sa chute, car Fetude
des emissions monetaires de Heraclee montre que la
Thessalie resta unie a 1'empire d'Orient jusqu'a la
chute de Licinius en 324. L'on voit done que Con-
stantin ne fit que continuer les frappes monetaires de
son devancier et que lorsqu'il conquit 1' Orient sa
chancellerie fit expedier dans tout 1'empire les for-
mules qui avaient deja ete inscrites sur les pieces de
Licinius, Providentiae Augg. et Caess., en supprimant
seulement la representation paienne de Jupiter, qui
d'ailleurs indiquait specialement la dynastie divine de
Licinius.

III. Au revers. PROVIDENTIAE CAES au singulier, avec
le meme type du revers.

T 2

264 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Au droit. 1. FL . IVL . CRISPVS - NOB - C. Son buste
laure et drape a gauche. Inedite ; ne differe de
Cohen 123 que par le mot CAES. l fere serie,
off. B S; Voetter; 4 me serie, off. B A; Voetter.

2. CONSTANTINVS IVN - NOB - C. Son busfce laure,

drape et cuirasse a droite. Cohen, 160 ;
2 me serie, off. A B 6 S ; BR. Mus.

3. Meme legende du droit et meme buste a gauche.

Piece inedite. 2 me serie, off. r ; BR. Mus. ; ne
differe de Cohen 165 que par le mot CAES.

4. FL - IVL CONSTANT IVS - NOB C. Son buste

laure, drape et cuirasse a gauche. Inedite ; ne
differe de Cohen 167 que par le mot CAES.
2 me serie, off. B S ', BR. Mus. ; 4 me serie, off!
B A S ; BR. Mus. ; 6 me serie, off. B S ;
BR. Mus.

Ces monnaies ne differant des precedentes que par le
mot CAES au singulier, Ton pent en conclure que Ton
n'est pas en presence (Tune frappe reguliere mais simple-
ment d'une erreur des ouvriers qui gravaient les coins
a Nicomedie et dont la negligence ou 1'ignorance sont
constantes a 1'epoque qui nous occupe.

IV. Au revere. SECVRITAS REIPVBLICE (sic). LaSecurite
voilee, debout a gauche, tenant un rameau
baisse et souienant sa robe.

Au droit. FL HELENA - AVGVSTA. Son buste diademe
et drape a droite. Cohen, 13. P re serie, off.
r A 6 S; FR. 13895, 13900-1; BR. Mus.;
Voetter. 3 me serie, off. |~ A ; BR. Mus. ; FR.
13869-70. Collection Louis Thery. [PL VII.,
No. 6.]

La legende Securitas BeipuUice, avec la contrac-
tion, de ae en e, est un nouvel exemple de 1 'envoi
des legendes et des types monetaires d'Orient en

L'ATELIER MONETAIRE, DE NICOMEDIE. 265

Occident apres la victoire definitive de Constantin sur
Licinius.

La contraction de ae en e se presente plusieurs fois
dans les legendes monetaires des pieces sorties des
ateliers d*0rient au III me siecle. Le Colonel Voetter
en a fourni plusienrs exemples tires des monnaies
d'Antioche. 72 Get atelier tomba dans les mains de Con-
stantin pen. apres la reddition de Licinius, a Mcomedie
en Septembre 324, car j'ai montre dans mon etude sur
1'atelier d'Antioche 75 que les monnaies de Helena Aug.
y parurent avant remission qui debuta loss de 1'elevation
de Constance II Cesar en Novembre 324. Ce fut done
peu de temps- apres sa victoire definitive et avant
d'elever au rang de Cesar son fils Constance II que
Constantin donna 1'ordre de frapper ces pieces a 1'effigie
et au nom de sa mere, qui portent la legende Securitas
EeipuUice, et d'en expedier le modele dans tout 1'empire.
C'est ainsi que la contraction du ae en e se rernarque a
cette epoque sur cette piece de Helena dont le modele
fut envoye aussitot apres la guerre d'un atelier d'Orient,.
probabletnent d'Antioche, ou cette contraction etait
frequente; tandis que les autres legendes analogues
dont la frappe ne fut decidee que plus tard, en meme
temps que celle de toute une nouvelle emission pour
tout 1'empire reorganise,, ne presentent pas la meme
orthographe H speciale a certaines villes- d^Orient..

72 Voetter, Die Legenden der Reichmiinzstatte AnMochia voir egaleinent
1'interessant extrait de Kubitscheck : Riickgang des Lateinischen in Osten
des romischen Reiches, dans le bulletin de la Numismatische Gesellschaft
in Wien du 17 DeVembre 1902.

73 J. Maurice, IS Atelier, monetaire d'AntiocJie, Num. Chro^, 1899, p. 231.

74 En effet une chancellerie reguliere dut etre reorganisee apres la
guerre et dut envoyer des modeles de legendes ecrites suivant
1'orthographe non pas d'une ville mais de tout 1'empire.

266 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

C'est le cas des deux pieces suivantes.

V. Au revers. SALVS REIPVBLICAE. Fausta voilee,
debout a gauche, tenant deux enfants dans ses
bras.

Au droit. FLAV . MAX . FAVSTA . AVG. Son buste en
cheveux ondules a droite et portant un collier
de perles. Cohen, 6 et 7. P re serie, off. B;
Voetter ; 3 me serie, off. A ; Voetter ; 5 me serie,
off. A B r ; Voetter.

VI. Au revers. SPES REIPVBLICAE. Avec le meme type.

Meme droit. Cohen, 15. P re serie, off. B A; FR. 15340;
BR. Mus. ; 3 ser ie, off. A ; FR. 15329-30;
5 me serie, Off. e ; BR. Mus.

Pieces d'or et Medaillons faisant partie de Remission.

Les pieces d'or de cette emission sont de 1'espece du
Solidus ou 72 me de la line, dont le poids moyen est de
4 gr. 55 c. ; tandis que les pieces de 1'emission prece-
dente etaient de 1'espece du 60 me de la livre.

I. Au revers. PIETAS . AVGVSTI NOSTRI. Constantin
en habit militaire, debout a gauche, relevant une
femme tourelee a genoux (Constantinople) que
lui presente un soldat, et tenant un sceptre.
II est couronne par la Victoire, qui tient une
palme.

Au droit. CONSTANTINVS . MAX AVG. Son buste
diademe et drape a droite. Cohen,
393; FR. 1529A ; 4 gr. 48 c. ; 19 m.m. ;

exergue gjL [PL VII., No. 7.] (Effigie
de Constantin le grand.) BR. Mus., avec
I'exergue

La lettre C est une forme cursive du digamma Q.

Constantin porta le diademe apres sa conquete
de TOrient en 324. La piece ci-dessus et plusieurs
medaillons analogues ont du etre frappes pour celebrer

L'ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 267

cette conquete, apres la prise de Constantinople. Aussi
la figure feminine tourelee me semble, en raison de la
representation ordinaire de Rome et de Constantinople
par des femmes tourelees, pouvoir etre considered comme
la ville de Constantinople, et la Pietas de 1'empereur qui
releve cette femme est la qualite de Tempereur qui fut
celebree plusieurs fois par les Panegyristes : la Pitie a
l'egard des nations vaincues. 75

II. Meme piece, mais en medaillon, avec Fexergue
; FB. ; 20 gr. 36 c. ; H. Mus. V. ; Musee

de Berlin ; Musee de Carlsruhe, avec .J Me

OlVl IN C

III. Au revers. PIETAS AVGVSTI N. Meme type du

revers.

Au droit. D N CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG. Son
buste radie, drape et cuirasse a gauche, a mi-
corps, levant la main droite et tenant un globe.
Cohen, 291, medaillon d'or; FR. No. 83, 8 gr.
90 c. ; 26 m.m. Medaillon d'or du poids de deux
solidi.

IV. Au revers. SPES REIPVBLICAE, avec kr type deja

decrit avec cette legende.

Au droit. FLAY MAX . FAVSTA AVG- Son buste a
droite, drape et coiffe en cheveux. Cohen, 12;

FR. No. 85A ; 8 gr. 84 c. ; exergue L
Medaillon d'or du poids de deux solidi.

V. Au revers. SALVS REIPVBLICAE, avec le revers deja
decrit avec cette legende.

Au droit. Meme legende et meme buste. Cohen, 5 ;
BR. Mus. ; 4 gr. 34 c. ; 20 m.m. ; Gnecchi.

Solidus ; exergue

75 Nazarii Panegyricus, Eumen., x., cap. 37, et Eumen. Paneg., vii.
cap. 20 : " singularem tuam, Constantine, pietatem," etc., etc.

268 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

VI. Au revers. SECVRITAS PERPETVAE (sic). Constantin

en habit militaire, debout a gauche, erigeant un
trophee et tenant un sceptre.

Au droit. D N CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB - CAES.
Son buste laure, drape et cuirasse a droite.
Gohen, 178, gravee p. 386; autrefois collection.

Rollin ; exergue ^L

tine piece analogue de la collection du British
Museum porte 1'exergue de Sirmium, atelier qui ne fut
ouvert que de 320 a 326.

VII. Au revers. VIRTVS CONSTANTIM CAVS - (sic).

Constantin II, en habit militaire, marchant a,
droite, portant une haste et un trophee et
poussant du pied gauche un captif assis a terre
et retournant la te"te vers lui.

Au droit. CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C. Son buste
laure et cuirasse & droite. Cohen, 243 ; FR.
1573A ; 4 gr. 50 c. ; 20 m.m. Solidus ; exergue

[P1 . VII., No. 8.]

Des pieces analogues, celebrant la Virtus de Constantin
et des Cesars, ont ete frappees a Thessalonica a la meifie
epoque. Cette pik;e se classe dans cette emission par
le fait que le solidus ne semble avoir ete frappe dans
ratelief de Mcomedie qu'apres la prise de cette ville
par Constantin.

VIII. Au revers. VIRTVS * CAESARIN (sic). Crispus tenant
Un bouclier, galopant a droite et frappant de sa
haste un ennemi a genoux ; sous le cheVal un
ennemi renverse et un bouclier.

Au droit. PL IVL CRISPVS NOB CAES, Son
buste laure a gauche, vu de face, artn6 d'une
haste et d'un bouclier. Piece inedite, voisine
de Cohen 164 ; H. Mils. V., No. 27049 ; 4 gr.

55 c. ; 20 m.m. Solidus. ; exergue \ N - (sic),

Le No. 164 de Cohen donne au revers VlRTVS
CAES . N N.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 269

IX. Au revers. FEL1C1TAS - PERPETVA AVG ET CAESS
. N N. L'empereur en habit militaire et
nimbe, assis, tenant une haste ; de chaque cote
un soldat debout avec un bouclier et une haste.

Au droit. CONSTANTINVS , IVN NOB CAES. Son
buste laure a droite. Cohen, 104 ; 45 m.m. ;

exergue J Medallion d'or de 1'ancien cata-
SM N

logue du Cabinet de France.

Le nihibe apparut sur plusieurs medallions de
Tarragone et de Treves comme sur le medallion ci-dessus
de Mcomedie de 324 a 326, 76 c'est a dire pendant la
periode qui suivit la guerre de 324 et la reunion de tout
['empire dans les mains de Constantin. L'on a vu plus
haut que Licinius se 1'etait attribue a lui et a son fils en
314. Mais il y a lieu de croire que le nimbe ne garda
plus apres la victoire definitive de Constantin la signi-
fication paienne qu'il avait auparavant, car Constantin,
qui avait supprime la consecration paienne des empereurs
apres leur mort, n'eut pas maintenu les signes de la
divinite pour lui de son vivant.

L'on dut frapper a partir de 1' elevation de Constance II
au rang de Cesar le 8 Novembre 324 la piece d'or suivante.

X. Au revers. PR I NCI PI IVVENTVTIS. Constance II, en
habit militaire, debout de face, regardant a
droite, tenant une enseigne surmontee d'un
aigle et une haste \ a droite une enseigne, sur-
monte'e d'une main.

Au droit. FL IVL CONSTANTIVS - NOB C. Son
buste laure, drape et cuirasse a droite. Variete
de Cohen 158 ; H. Mus. V., No. 27700; 4 gr.

50 c. ; 20 m.m. Solidus ; exergue

SMN

76 J. Maurice, L' Atelier monftaire de Treves, 2 me partie, Me'moires de la
Soci^tf natiunale des Antiquaires de France, 1901, p. 52 de Particle, en
cours de publication.

270 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Le medallion suivant n'a pu etre frappe que de 324 a
326, entre 1'elevation de Constance II Cesar et la mort de
Crispus.

XL Au revers. CRISPVS ET . CONSTANTIVS NOBB
CAESS. Leurs bustes en regard. Celui de
Crispus est a mi-corps a droite, laure, avec le
manteau imperial, tenant un sceptre surmonte
d'un aigle et un globe. Celui de Constance II
est laure, drape et cuirasse a gauche.

Au droit. D N CONSTANTINVS -MAX AVG. Buste
radie de Constantin a gauche, avec le manteau
imperial, levant la droite et tenant un globe.

Cohen, tome vii., page 321. Exergue '

SM N

Medaillon d'or de 8 gr. 80 c. ; 25 m.m. Double
solidus. Anciennement collection Ponton d' Ame-
court.

Constantin porte rarement sur ses pieces la couronne
radiee.

Les trois medallions d'or qui suivent ont ete frappes
a 1'occasion de la troisieme entree a Kome de Constantin
lors de ses Vicennalia, le 21 Juillet 326." En effet les
pieces et medaillons connus qui celebrent les Adventus
de Constantin a Kome ont tons ete frappes dans ses etats,
soit a Londres et Aquilee pour les deux premiers Adventus
en 312 et en 314, 78 a Antioche, Constantinople 79 et
Nicomedie pour le troisieme en 326 ; et Nicomedie
n'appartint a Constantin qu'apres 1'annee 324. De plus
Fun des medaillons qui vont etre decrits presente un

buste diademe et porte un exergue J qui le classe

" C. I. L., i., p. 397.

78 J. Maurice, L' Atelier mondlaire de Lonclves, Num. Chron., 1900,
p. 121. IS Atelier moruftaire d'Aquitee, Eivista It. d. Num., 1901, p. 301.

79 L 1 Atelier d' Antioche, Num. Chron., 1899, p. 236. L' Atelier de
Constantinople, Revue Numismatique, 1901, p. 178.

L'ATELIER MONET AIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 271

dans 1'emission presente, et un autre est tout a fait
analogue a un medallion frappe a Antioche a la memo
epoque. 0. Seeck a conclu de 1'etude des rares textes
que nous possedons sur ce sujet que ces medaillons
devaient etre distribues aux grands personnages de
1'empire et aux ordres des Senateurs et des Chevaliers
a 1'occasion d'evenements importants. 80 Get evenement
est dans le cas present Tentree de Constantin a Kome, le
21 Juillet 326.

On trouve

XII. Au revers. ADVENTVS AVG N. Constantin a cheval,

levant la main droite, precede par la Victoire
qui tient une couronne et une palme.

Au droit. CONSTANT! NVS MAX AVG. Son buste
diademe et drape a droite. Cohen, 5 ; medaillon
d'or; 26 m.m. Ancien catalogue du Cabinet

de France. Exergue ' _

Cet exergue, qui se trouve dans la I 5re serie de
1'emission presente, ne se rencontre pas dans les series
monetaires emises en 312 et en 314. II fixe done la
frappe de ce medaillon en 326.

XIII. Au revers. ADVENTVS AVG N. Constantin en

habit militaire, a cheval a gauche, levant la
main droite, et tenant une haste.

Au droit. CONSTANTINVS P F AVG. Satetelauree
a droite. Cohen, 71. Exergue J K

oM N

Un medaillon analogue d'Antioche est classe dans
remission de 324 a 326 par son exergue. 81

XIV. Au revers. FELIX ADVENTVS AVG N. Constantin

en habit militaire, a cheval au pas a gauche,
levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre.

80 O. Seeck, Zu den Festmunzen Constantins und seiner Familie, Zeitsch.
f. Numism., xx., 24.

81 J. Maurice, L' Atelier d'Antioche, Num. Chron., 1899, p. 236.

272 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Au, droit. D N CONSTANTINVS MAX . AVG. Son
buste laure, drape et cuirasse a droite. Cohen,
151 ; H. Mus. V., No. 32343, et FR. No. 25;
6 gr. 76 c. ; 24 m.m. Piece d'un solidus et
demi, dont O. Seeck a indique egalement la

presence parmi ces medallions. Exergue qjrWi
[PI. VII., No. 9.] (Effigie de Constantin.)

Les annees 325 et 326 furent signalees par plusieurs
evenements importants. Ceux qui semblent avoir eu
une influence sur la frappe des medallions sont les-
Vicennalia de Constantin, qui tombaient au 25 Juillet 326,.
et furent celebres une premiere fois une annee plus tot,
en 325, a Mcomedie, et une seconde fois a Kome en
326, et d'autre part les Deeennalia des Cesars, qui
tombaient au l er Mars 327, mais durent etre celebres.
egalement une annee plus tot, le l er Mars 326, a Nico-
medie, tandis que Constantin se trouvait encore en
Orient. II faut encore noter le consulat de Constantin.
en 326.

0. Seeck a emis I'hypothese ingenieuse que le*
medaillons qui portent en legende Equis Bomanus ou
Senatus et la representation de 1'empereur etaient
offerts aux Chevaliers et aux Senateurs, dont 1'ordre etait
ainsi honore d'une mention speciale de 1'empereur. 82
Ces pieces durent etre frappees a 1'occasion des Vicennalia
de Constantin. Quant aux pieces d'or ou d'argent qui
furent emises en 1'honneur des Deeennalia des Cesars,
elles portent 1'indication des Vota ou bien presentent
un type tout special, le Cesar ou 1'Empereur les yeux
leves au ciel, la tete ceinte d'un bandeau ou diademe
oriental, dont il sera question plus loin.

82 O. Seeck, loc. cit., p. 24.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 273

XV. Au revers. EQVES ROMANVS. Constantin a cheval,
au pas a droite, et levant la main droite.

Au droit. D - N - CONSTANTINVS - MAX . AVG. Son
buste laure, drape et cuirasse a droite. Cohen,
138; medaillon d'or; 23 m.m.; Vente de

Moustier. Exergue

SMN

XVI. Au revers. EQVIS ROMANVS. Meme type et meme
exergue.

Au droit. D N CONSTANT! NVS MAX AVG. Son
buste laure, drape et cuirasse a droite. Cohen,
139 ; FR., Nos. 23 et 24 ; 6 gr. 62 c. ; 23 m.m.
[PI. VII., No. 10.] li Solidm; H. Mus. V.,
No. 32339 ; 25 m.m. ; Musees de Berlin, de
Turin. (Effigie de Constantin).

Ces deux medallions avec les legendes Equis et Eques
sont un exemple des confusions de lettres frequentes a
Nicomedie.

XVII. Au revers. SENATVS. Constantin laure debout a
gauche, en toge, tenant un globe et un sceptre
court.

Au droit. D N CONSTANTINVS AVG. Sa tete
diademee a droite, levant les yeux. H. Mus. V.,
medaillon d'or, No. 26277.

Un medaillon voisin de Thessalonica est classe par
son exergue dans remission contemporaine de celle-ci.
J'ai deja indique 1'annee 326 comme celle de la frappe
de ces medallions. 83 Mais il est possible aussi qu'ils
aient ete frappees egalernent en 325 lors de la celebration
a Nicomedie des Vieennalia de Constantin. Le medaillon
qui vient d'etre decrit presente un type de tetequi se trouve
repete sur toutes les pieces des Cesars emises en 326 a

83 J. Maurice, Bulletin de la Socie'tf nationale des Antiquaires de
France, 1898, pp. 381-2, seance du 14 Deceinbre ; et L' Atelier de
Thessalonica, Numism. Zeitsclirift, 1901, p. 139.

274 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

1'occasion ou apres Taccomplisseinent de leurs Decen-
nalia, et qui a partir de cette date reapparut a chaque
anniversaire des Vota des Cesars et des Augustes jusqu'a
1'Empereur Julien inclusivement. Ce sont les tetes
diademees d'empereurs, les yeux leves au ciel, sans
legende, et la tete ceinte du bandeau royal ou diademe,
que Ton voit au droit des pieces presentant au revers les
Vota des empereurs dans une eouronne de laurier, mais plus
specialement sur les pieces d'or et d'argent, et de meme
sur les pieces d'or qui presentent au revers les noms des
empereurs, telles que celles qui furent emises en 326 a
Nicomedie et qui vont etre decrites. Ces faits coincident
avec ce qu'Eusebe dit de Constantin, 84 qu'il se fit repre-
senter sur les monnaies d'or le visage tourne vers le ciel,
dans 1'attitude de la priere, et que ces pieces circulerent
dans tout I'empire.

Nous savons done a quelle occasion ces pieces paru-
rent : ce fut aux anniversaires des avenements des
empereurs, lors de Quinquennalia, Decennalia, etc., etc.
Nous savons egalement que 1'origine de cette coutume
remonte a 1'annee du Concile de Nicee ou a celle
qui la suivit (326) et il est probable que Constantin
voulut donner une attitude de priere, indiquer une in-
vocation de la puissance de Dieu, sur ces pieces, ainsi
que le dit Eusebe ; mais Ton ne trouve pas de symbole
particulier du Christianisme sur ces pieces, et c'est
probablement la raison pour laquelle non seulement les
empereurs Ariens mais meme Julien les firent emettre
aux anniversaires de leurs Vota.

Ces pieces parurent principalement aux deux anni-

84 Eusebe, Vita Con?tantini, iv., 11 : "eV TO?S XP V<TO ? S vofjLto-/j.a<ri T}\V
avrov avr6s fiK6va (js'Se ypd4>ecr6ai SieruTrou, us Hvw ft\firfiv
irpbs Qebv, Tp6Trov eu^o/ieVoy," etc.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 275

versaires de 1'annee 326, les Deeennalia des Cesars le
l er Mars, et les Vicennalia de Constantin le 25 Juillet,
dans la plupart des ateliers de 1'empire alors ouverts.

On trouve

XVIII. Au revers. CONSTANTINVS - AVG en legende et

dans le champ de la piece deux couronnes de
laurier entrelacees.

Au droit. Sans legende. Tete diademee de Constantin
a droite, les yeux tournes vers le ciel. Cohen,
105; H. Mus. V., No. 25945. Solidus.

Exergue J-

XIX. Au revers. Meme legende. Victoire assise a gauche

tenant un globe surmonte d'une Yictoire et une
corne d'abondance ; derriere elle un bouclier.

Au droit. Sans legende. Sa tete diademee a droite, les
yeux tournes vers le ciel. Cohen, 102. Solidus ;

20 m.m. ; Berlin. Exergue J

oMN

XX. Au rem-s. CONSTANTINVS CAESAR. Yictoire mar-

chant a gauche, tenant une couronne et une
palme.

Au droit. Tete diademee de Constantin II a droite, les
yeux tournes vers le ciel dans Fattitude de
1'oraison comme sur les autres pieces. Cohen,
75 ; H. Mus. V. ; No. 27201 ; 4 gr. 53 c. ;

20 m.m. Solidus; FR. Exergue -L [PI.
VII., No. 11.]

XXI. Au revers. CONSTANTIVS - CAESAR. Meme type du

revers. Tete diademee pareille de Constance II.
Cohen, 14; FR. 1588; 4 gr. 50 c. ; 20 m.m.

Solidus ; coll. Gnecchi. Exergue -!_

XXII. Au revers. CR IS PVS CAESAR. Meme type du revers.

Au droit. Tete analogue de Crispus. Cohen, 59 ;
FR. ; 4 gr. 42 c. ; 19 m.m.; coll. Gnecchi.

Exergue ' -

276 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Toutes ces tetes ont pour diademe le simple bandeau
royal, tandis que les diademes representes sur les
medailles frappees en d'autres circonstances sont formes
de pierres precieuses ou ornes de perles. La piece
d'argent suivante fut frappee avec les pieces d'or
qui viennent d'etre decrites.

XXIII. Au revers. CONSTANTINVS AVGVSTVS. Meme
revers.

Au droit. Sans legende. Tete analogue de Constantin a
droite. Piece d'argent ; coll. Gnecchi ; 20 m.m.

Les pieces d'argent qui vont etre decrites sont de
1'espece du Miliarense^ qui fut frappee de 324 a 326
ainsi qu'en temoigne 1'emission de Sirmium qui parut
a cette epoque. Ce fut, a ce qu'il semble, 1'epoque de
creation du Miliarense.

Avec 1'exergue . [ on trouve :

oM N

XXIV. Au revers. FELICITAS ROMANORVM. Constantin
debout entre deux de ses fils en habit militaire
et s'appuyant sur des hastes, sous une voute
soutenue par des colonnes.

Au droit. I. CONSTANTINVS - MAX - AVG. Son buste
laure et cuirasse a droite. Cohen, 150 ;
Gnecchi, Miliarense.

2. D - N - CRISPVS NOB - CAESAR. Son buste laure

et cuirasse a droite. Piece inedite ; BE. Mus.,
Miliarense. Belle effigie de Crispus. [PI. VII.,
No. 12.]

3. FL - IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C. Son buste laure

a droite avec le manteau imperial et la cuirasse.
Piece inedite. Musee de Berlin ; 4 gr. 40 c. ;
23 m.m.

85 G. Babelon, Trait? des Monnaies Grecques et Romaines, tome i.,
569-70.

I/ ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 277

Le Miliarense est le 72 me de la livre romaine ; il pese
en moyenne 4 gr. 55 c. et a de 23 a 24 millimetres de
diametre. Le medaillon d'or suivant se classe encore
dans eette emission par ses Vota et par son exergue de
la troisieine serie.

XX Y. Au revers. VOTIS X CAESS N N en trois
lignes dans le champ; au dessous MNP, dans
une eouronne, en haut de laquelle est un aigle.

Au droit. D N - CONSTANT! NVS IVN - NOB CAES.
Son buste diademe, drape et cuirasse a droite.
Cohen, 279 ; 9 gr. ; 25 m.m. [PI. VII.,
No. 13.] (Effigie de Constantin II.)

NEUVIEME EMISSION.

Frappee depuis Velevation de Delmatius Cesar le
18 Septembre 335 jusqu'a, la proclamation des fils de
Constantin le Grand Augustes et la frappe des monnaies
ou Constantin reqoit le nom de Divus Constantinus Pater
Augustorum, le 9 Septembre 337. 86

En effet 1'atelier de Nicomedie resta ferme depuis la
cessation de la frappe des monnaies de Crispus et de
Fausta en Septembre 326 87 jusqu'a 1'apparition des
monnaies de Delmatius, elu Cesar le 18 Septembre 335.
On trouve egalenient dans remission presente les pieces
de Constant I, elu Cesar le 25 Decembre 333 et celles de
Kome et de Constantinople, qui furent emises depuis les
fetes de 1'inauguration officielle et religieuse de Con-

86 J. Maurice, IS Atelier monetaire de Constantinople, Revue Numismatique,
1901, pp. 208-209.

87 J. Maurice, L 1 Atelier mon&taire d'Antioehe, Num. Chron. y 1899,
p. 237.

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278 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

stantinople en presence de Constantin et de la cour le
11 Mai 330. 88

Les pieces de bronze de cette emission sont de deux
sortes. Les plus grandes sont une variete du Nummus
Centenionalis d'un poids moyen de 2 gr. 50 c. ; ce sont
principalement celles qui offrent au revers la representa-
tion de deux etendards entre deux soldats. Les plus
petites, designees dans Cohen cornme quinaires, sont la
moitie du Nummus Centenionalis de 3 gr. 50 c. et ont
en consequence un poids moyen de 1 gr. 75 c. 89

II existe des pieces de Delmatius des deux sortes, ce
qui conduit a admettre que remission ne parut qu'a
partir de son elevation comme Cesar le 18 Septemhre
335. L'atelier de Nicomedie etait done reste ferme de
326 a 335.

Exergues des monnaies de bronze de 1'emission

I I I I

SMNT SMNA SMN6 SMNS

A. Pieces de Tespece du Nummus Centenionalis reduit
au poids moyen de 2 gr. 50 c.

On trouve

I. Au revers. GLORIA EXERCITVS . Deux soldats,
casques, debout et se regardant, tenant chacun
une haste et appuyes sur un bouclier ; entre
eux deux enseignes militaires surmontees de

88 J'ai montre dans mon etude sur Constantinople (Rev. Numis-
matique, 1901, p. 175) que cette capitale re9ut son nom nouveau le
8 Novembre 324 mais ne fut inauguree qu'en 330.

89 E. Babelon, Trait? des Monnaies Grecques et Eomaincs, tome i.,
612-614.

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 279

Au droit. 1. CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG. Son buste
diademe et drape a droite. Cohen, 254 ; off.
A B r A S; FE. 14654; 2 gr. 25 c. ;
17 m.m.; 14655, 14657, 14682; BR. Mus. ;
Voetter. [PI. VII., No. 14.]

2. CONSTANTINVS . IVN NOB C. Son buste laure et

cuirasse a droite. Cohen, 122 ; off. A B f

6 S ; FE. 15717-18 ; 2 gr. 50 c. ; 18 m.m.;

BE. Mus. ; Musee de Turin ; Voetter.

3. FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C. Son buste laure

et drape a droite. Cohen, 104; off. A f A

-; FE. 16192, 16201-2, 16208-9 ; BE. Mus. ;
Voetter.

4. FL CONSTANS NOB CAES. Son buste laure et

drape a gauche. Cohen, 72 ; off. A A 6 ;

FE. 15966 ; Voetter.

5. FL IVL CONSTANTIS (sic) NOB - C. Son buste

laure et drape a gauche. Piece inedite ; off.
A_e ; FE. 15962 ; Voetter.

6. FL AALMATIVS (sic) NOB CAES. Son buste

laure et drape a droite. Cohen, 14; off. ;
FE. 15572 ; 2 gr. 50 c. ; 17 m.m. ; Voebter.

II. Au revers. Sans legende. Victoire debout a gauche,
posant le pied sur une proue de vaisseau, tenant
un sceptre et appuyee sur un bouclier.

Au droit. CONSTANT! NOPOLI (sic). Son buste casque
a gauche avec le casque laure, tenant un sceptre
et portant le rnanteau imperial. Cohen, 21 ;
FB. 15204-5; off. A B A -6 ; Voetter; Br.

Mus.

III. Au revers. Sans legende. La Louve a gauche, allaitant
Romulus et Remus et les regardant. Au-dessus
deux etoiles; entre les etoiles deux ou trois
points.

Au droit. VRBS ROMA. Son buste casque a gauche
avec une aigrette sur le casque et le manteau
imperial. Cohen, 17; FE. 15272-3; off. A S ;
Voetter ; BE. Mus. [PI. VII., No. 15.]

U 2

280 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

B. Pieces du poids moijen de 1 gr. 75 c.
(demi-Centenionalis) .

IV. Au revers. GLORIA - EXERCITVS. Avec le type du
revers deja decrit, si ce n'est qu'il n'y a qu'une
enseigne entre les soldats.

Au droit.I. CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG. Son buste
diademe et drape a droite. Cohen, 250 ; off.
A B r-A 6 S; FR. 14610,14613-4,14616;
BE. Mus. ; Yoetter.

2. CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C. Son buste laure et

cuirasse a droite. Cohen, 114; off. A B f A
6 S ) BR. Mus. ; Musee de Turin ; Voetter.

3. Meme legende. Meme buste a gauche. Piece inedite ;

off. A ; Musee de Turin.

4. FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB - C. Son buste laure

et drape a droite. Cohen, 92 ; off. r A ;
FR. 16147; BR. Mus. ; Voetter.

5. FL CONSTANS NOB CAES. Son buste diademe

et drape a gauche. Cohen, 47 ; off. B f A
S ; Voetter.

6. FL AALMATIVS NOB - CAES. Son buste laure et

drape a droite. Piece inedite ; variete de
Cohen 5, avec 1' e remplace par A ; off. A ;
BE. Mus. ; Voetter. [PI. VII., No. 16.]

7. VRBS ROMA. Buste de Rome a gauche avec une

aigrette sur le casque et le manteau imperial.
Cohen, 1 ; off. B ; Voetter.

8. CONSTANTINOPOLI - (sic). Buste de Constantinople a

gauche avec le casque laure et le manteau
imperial, tenant un sceptre. Cohen, 5 ; off. A ;
Voetter.

V. Au revers. Sans legende. La Louve a gauche, allaitant
Romulus et Remus et les regardant. Au dessus
d'eux deux etoiles; eiitre les etoilesdeux ou trois
points.

L'ATELIER MONETAIKE DE NICOMEDIE. 281

Au droit. VRBS ROMA - Avec le buste deja decrit.
Cohen, 19, piece indiquee comme quinaire ;
off. B-S; FK. 15274; 1 gr. 71 c. ; 19 m.m. ;
Voetter ; 3 points entre les etoiles.

Les points places an dessus de la Louve sont des
differents monetaires, tandis que les etoiles entre lesquelles
sont les points font partie du type du revers de ces pieces
et sont un souvenir des Dioscures, au dessus de la tete
desquels se tenaient ces etoiles et qui etaient les
divinites protectrices de Home.

VI. Sans legende. Victoire debout a gaucHe, posant le pied
sur une proue de vaisseau, tenant un sceptre et
appuyee sur un bouclier.

Au droit. CONSTANTINOPOL! (sic). Avec le buste
deja. decrit. Cohen, 22, pieces indiquees comme
quinaires ; Yoetter ; Off. A .

Les Vicennalia de Constantin avaient ete fetees en
325 a Nicomedie et en 326 a Eome ; ses Tricennalia
furent celebres une premiere fois a Constantinople le
25 Juillet 335, 90 avec beaucoup d'eclat, suivant le dire
d'Eusebe, qui y rattache 1'envoi de deputations de divers
pays, et notamment de 1'Inde, vers 1'Empereur. Ces
ietes durent se renouveller en 336, annee qui fut
egalement marquee par le mariage de Constance II, le
second fils vivant de Constantin depuis la mort de Crispus.
De plus, en 336 tombaient les Vicennalia des Cesars, qui
donnerent lieu a une nouvelle frappe de monnaies des
Cesars, dont les tetes, le regard tourne vers le ciel,,
portent le diademe ou bandeau royah

90 La Chronique Paschale les indiqua en 335. Idatii Fast. :
" Constantino et Albino, his conss., tricennalia edidit Constantinus Aug.
die viii kal. Aug." Euseb., Vita Const., iv., 46, 47, 50.

282 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

Ce fut a 1'occasion de la celebration des Trieennalia en
335 que durent etre principalement frappees les pieces d'or
et d'argent suivantes :

I. Au revere. VICTORIA CONSTANTINF AVG. Victoire
assise a droite sur une cuirasse et un bouclier et
ecrivant VOT -XXX sur un bouclier que lui
presente un genie.

Au droit. 1. CONSTANTINVS - MAX AVG. Sa tete
diademee a droite, les yeux leves au ciel.
Cohen, 617 ; Musee de Berlin ; 4 gr. 30 c. ;
24 m.m. Solidus de grande dimension, tel que
sont ceux de la fin du regne de Constantin.

L'on retrouve ici le type des tetes avec les yeux leves
au ciel, dans Tattitude de 1'oraison, qui ont ete indiquees
par Eusebe et dont la frappe se repete a 1'occasion de
chaque anniversaire important du couronnement des
empereurs, c'est a dire a 1'occasion de la celebration de
leurs Vota.

2. Meme legende du droit, mais le buste diademe et drape
a droite. Cohen, 616, mais Solidus ; H. Mus V.

gjiJRf, peut-etre^L; exergue irregulier,

ou la lettre M finale qui n'a pas de sens, mais
qui se retrouve sur plusieurs pieces d'or de
Nicomedie.

II. Aurevers.D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG autonr
d'une couronne de laurier dans laquelle on lit
VOT XXX.

Au droit. CONSTANTINVS AVG. Sa tete diademee a
droite, les yeux leves au ciel. Piece d'argent

inedite du Musee de Berlin ; exergue '

Voisine du petit bronze de Cohen 130. Les couronnes
de laurier que Ton trouve sur les pieces de ce genre
autour du chiffre des Vota ne s'y trouvent pas repre-
sentees sans motifs, mais elles doivent commemorer les

L' ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 283

jeux celebres en 1'honneur des anniversaires imperiaux
lors de la celebration des Vota.

Les medallions d'or suivants, bien que la lettre
d'officine S ne soit pas inscrite sur le medallion a 1'exergue
comme sur les autres pieces de remission, mais dans le
champ du revers, ont du etre frappes lors des anniversaires
de 335 et de 336, car, en effet, au droit de ces pieces
1'empereur a les yeux leves au ciel, dans 1'attitude de
1'oraison, comme sur toutes les medailles emises lors
des anniversaires des Vicenncdia et Trieennalia de Conr
stantin comme des Decennalia et Vieennalia. des Cesars.

On trouve

III. Au revers. GLORIA CONSTANTIN1 AVG. Constantly

casque et en habit militaire, marchant a droite;
portant un trophee et trainant un barbare par
les cheveux. II pose le pied gauche leve sur
un captif assis devant lui a terre.

Au droit. Sans legende. Tete diademee de Constantin

a droite, les yeux leves au ciel. Cohen, 237.

i
Exergue ^^ Medallion d'or ; 6 gr. 34 c. a

6 gr. 81 c.

IV. Au revers.- Meme legende. Constantin debout a gauche,

entre deux captif s assis les mains liees derriere
le dos ; tenant un globe surmonte d'une Yictoire
et une haste.

Au droit'. Sans legende. Tete diademee de Constantin
a droite, les yeux leves vers le ciel. Cohen,
240 ; BE. Mus. ; medallion d'or ; 6 gr. 25 c..

I Q

Exergue et lettre dans le champ '

oIVI N

Une serie' de pieces d'or ou d'argent presentant aux
revers les noms des empereurs et aux droits leurs tetes
diademees,. avec le simple bandeau royal et la face et
les yeux tournes vers le ciel, fut frappee lors des
anniversaires de 335 (Trieennalia de Constantin) et 336

284 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

(repetition des memes et Vicennalia des Cesars). Les
Vicennalia des Cesars se repeterent en 337 et donnerent
lieu a 1'emission des memes pieces. Plus tard Ton
emit des monnaies presentant la legende SECVRITAS
REIPVBLICE et VOT - XX, dont la description sort de
notre sujet, car elles parurent apres 1'elevation des
Augustes, dont ils indiquent le titre, en Septembre.
Ces pieces demontrent qu'apres la celebration des Vota,
Ton en repetait le chiffre jusqu'a raccomplissement des
suivants; mais elles ne sont pas les monnaies frappees
a 1'occasion meme de la celebration de 1'anniversaire
comme la monnaie de Delmatius dont la description
suit. Je n'ai pas trouve de piece analogue de Constant I.
Quant aux pieces des autres Cesars elles ont ete decrites
dans remission precedente.

V. Au revers. DELMATIVS . CAESAR. Victoire mar-
chant a gauche tenant une couronne et une palme.

Au droit. Sans legende. Tete diademee avec le simple
bandeau royal de Delmace a droite et les yeux

leves au ciel ; exergue gJ-^ Cohen, 3; piece
d'argent; BE. Mus. [PI. VII., No. 17.]

L'on ne frappa egalement que pendant cette emission
les pieces de Constant I, elu Cesar en 333, telles que la
suivante.

I. Au revers. PRINCIP1 - IVVENTVTIS. Constant I en
habit militaire, debout a droite, tenant une
haste transversale et un globe.

An droit. FL . CONSTANS NOB CAES. Son buste
laure et drape a gauche. Variete inedite de
Cohen 94. Triens ou tiers de Solidus ;

exergue ^L ; H. Mus. V., No. 27459; 1 gr.
65 c. ; 17 m.m.

L'on sait que les pieces designant les Cesars comme
princes de la jeunesse etaient emises des leur avenement.

L'ATELIER MONETAIRE DE NICOMEDIE. 285

Apres la mort de Constantin le Grand, survenue le
22 Mai 337, 1'empire resta dans un etat d'anarchie jusqu'a
la proclamation des trois Augustes, Constantin II, Con-
stance II et Constant I, le 9 Septembre 337. L'atelier
de Nicomedie ne semble pas avoir emis de monnaies
nouvelles ni avoir change le chiffre de ses officines
pendant cette periode, qui donna lieu a Constantinople
a la frappe des monnaies qui presentent 1'unique

exergue ' . 91 Apres le 9 Septembre 337, Ton emit

les monnaies qui consacraient la memoire du Divus Con-
stantinus Pater Augustorum.

L'on trouve a cette epoque deux series d'exergues.

P re serie

I
' SMNA B f A -S Z H 9 I.

2 me serie, SMNA* ; memes lettres d'officines.

Pieces de la moitie du Centenionalis.
On trouve

I. Au revers. VN -MR. La Piete ou une figure feminine
debout ^ droite et voilee, les mains enveloppees
dans sa robe.

Au droit. DN CONSTANTINVS PT AVGG. Sa tete
voilee a droite. Cohen, 716 ; P re et 2 me serie ;
off. A a I ; BE. Mus. ; Toetter ; FE. [PL VII.,
No. 18.]

II. Au revers. Sans legende. Constantin dans un
quadrige au galop a droite tendant la main a
une main qui descend du ciel pour le recevoir.

Meme legende et meme tete ou buste au droit. Cohen,

760.

l fere serie, off. A a s ; BE. Mus. ; FE. ; Voetter.
2 me serie, off. A a S ', de meme.

JULES MAUEICE.

91 J. Maurice, IS Atelier mon&aire de Constantinople, Revue Numismatique,
1901, pp. 206 a 209.

IX.

THE GOLD COINAGE OF THE KEIGN OF
HENKY VI.

(See Plates VHI.-IX.).

WHEN I read my paper on the silver coinage of Henry
VI our learned President suggested the desirability of
the gold coins of this reign being specially studied with
a view to seeing how far they would corroborate the
conclusions I arrived at in regard to the arrangement of
the silver coins. In deference to this suggestion I have
since devoted some little attention to the subject, with
what I hope may prove to be some interesting results,
and these I will now submit to the Society for their
consideration. I think I shall be able to show reason
for considerably altering the arrangement hitherto
followed as to the coins already known and published,
and also to add several varieties of nobles of the later
coinages, corresponding with the silver issues, of hitherto
unknown types. Before attempting to classify the gold
coins I will, as I did in my last paper, quote the mint
accounts as given by Ending of the amount of bullion
coined during the various periods of this reign; and I
would specially call attention to the large amount of gold
coined at the London and Calais mints from the tenth
year of Henry V up to the ninth year of Henry VI, and
to the small amounts coined during subsequent years.

THE GOLD COINAGE OF HENRY VI. 287

The following accounts are given by Kuding (Vol. I.,
pp. 84, 85):-

London
From the 10th year Henry V to the s. d.

3rd year Henry VI 19,746 11

From July 28 of the 3rd year to July 27 Lbs. ozs. dwts.

of the 9th year of Henry VI. . . 5,963 7 llf
Calais
From Jan. 24 of the 2nd year to Dec. 24

of the 6th year 2,834 c# 9 7

From May 20 of the 6th year to Aug. 2

of the 9th year 361 3 10

London
From Oct. 16 of the 10th year to Oct. 22

of the llth year 663 4 15 7

18th and 19th years 505 3

From Michaelmas of 23rd year to Mi-
chaelmas of 24th year .... 162 3

25th year 87 11 17 J

From June 24 of 26th year to Oct. 11

of 28th year 207 11 2^

From Michaelmas of the 29th year to

Easter of the 30th year .... 416 4 11 J
From April 1 of the 31st year to

April 21 of the 32nd year ... 123 10 7J
From April 21 of the 32nd year to

March 28 of the 34th year ... 149 6 10
From Michaelmas of the 37th year to

Michaelmas of the 38th year . . 49 5 5

Kuding states that these accounts are not complete,
but they appear in a general way so well to correspond
with the proportion of coins, both in gold and silver, that
remain to us, that there cannot be a great deal missing,
while any incompleteness is probably of a proportionate
nature. 1 A very slight examination of the foregoing
details shows us, as we might (having reference to the
silver) naturally expect, that by far the largest amount
of gold coined during this reign, was within the period
that comprises the great annulet coinage in its various

1 The accounts from 1433 to 1440 are entirely missing, which period I
suggested in my last paper accounted for the whole of the pine-cone coinage.

288 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.

phases, while the amount coined during what we may
assume to be the period of the trefoil coinage, or from about
1440 to 1450 (approximately), is trivial by comparison.
Now, according to the classification of Kenyon and others,
practically no annulet gold coins are known ; and although
almost unique specimens of both noble and half-noble
ascribed to this coinage have appeared in recent years,
they do not materially alter Kenyon's conclusions. On
the other hand, while not recognising the existence of
gold coins of the annulet issues, he, with other writers,
ascribes the bulk of Henry VI's gold coins to the trefoil
issue, notwithstanding the fact that on all specimens the
annulet occupies the place of a distinguishing mark in a
most prominent way on both the obverse and reverse,
small trefoils being merely used as stops. It will be
seen from these preliminary remarks that I propose to
transfer the gold coins of the, up to the present, so-called
trefoil coinage, to the annulet coinage ; and I will
endeavour to give in detail my reason for doing so, my
task being made much easier by the fact that one speci-
men at least of a noble, indisputably of the trefoil coinage,
is now known and is in the National Collection. It was
obtained with several other varieties of either very rare,
or previously unknown types of nobles and half-nobles
from a recent find in France, but in what locality I have
been unable to ascertain. On the noble to which I now
refer, the trefoil, which is large, is placed in the legend
as on the groats of the trefoil coinage, and it only occurs
in one place, small sal tires being used between the other
words. It is also placed in the field of the obverse. I will
describe it more in detail later on in going through the
several issues and comparing them with the silver coins.
It will perhaps be remembered that, in my paper on

THE GOLD COINAGE OF HENRY VI. 289

the silver coins of this reign, I endeavoured to show that
the great bulk of the annulet coins belong to Henry VI,
and that all those belonging to Henry V are to be
distinguished by a variety of the pierced cross mint-mark
which I called type I. cga ; 2 while I gave reasons for
believing that, with the .accession of Henry VI and the
renewal by the Regency of the indenture with Bartholo-
mew Goldbeter, a new distinguishing mark would be
most probable, and was to be found in an altered form of
the pierced cross which I called type II. >. The same
reasoning will, I think, apply to the gold coins, and in
this case the, at present, unique specimens of the annulet
noble and half-noble (the former in the National Col-
lection, and the latter in those of Sir John Evans and the
late Mr. Montagu), 3 together with the quarter-noble in the
British Museum, at once fall into position, with the silver
coins of the annulet type which I ascribed to Henry V, all
having as m.m. the pierced cross of type I. This, it should
be observed, is the only form of pierced cross found on the
annulet gold coins ; and I would suggest that, instead of
the pierced cross of type II. which, on the silver coins, I
take to be the distinguishing mark of the first issue of
Henry VI, the fleur-de-lys was adopted as the new mark
on the gold coins. It would obviously be suggested by
the succession of the infant king to the throne of France
almost immediately after that of England, through the
death of his grandfather Charles VI, who had been
compelled by treaty to acknowledge Henry V as his
heir. The lion or leopard of England was prominently

2 In speaking of the pierced cross of types I. and II. reference is only
intended to 'the annulet coinage, there being a third and earlier type
still, which is found on some coins of Henry IV or the first of Henry V.

3 The half-noble is photographed in the Montagu Catalogue.

290 NUMISMATIC CHEONICLE.

introduced in conjunction with the fleur-de-lys, upon all
the French coins of Henry VI, and what could seem
more appropriate than to introduce the emblem of France
in a prominent way upon the new issue of English money
of the first English sovereign acknowledged as King of
France. If this idea should be % correct the adoption of
the fleur-de-lys for the reason given as a distinguishing
mark upon the gold coins at the very commencement of
Henry VPs reign would also account for its long con-
tinuance throughout so many coinages, and even to its
revival on the angels of the restoration. As the French
possessions gradually fell away from the power of England
the symbol of their sovereignty would probably be re-
tained with increasing tenacity by Henry, while the re-
membrance that he had been solemnly crowned king of
France, as the acknowledged heir of her kings, would make
him feel that the emblem of that country was specially his
own from his infancy. I believe that the fleur-de-lys had
not until Henry VFs first coinage been used as a distin-
guishing mark on the coins of York, and it probably was
so placed there as his special emblem. Its continuance in
after years into the reign of Edward IV would thus very
possibly be due to the well-known Lancastrian tendencies
of the City. Having given my reasons for believing the
fleur-de-lys to be the special mark distinguishing the
first gold coins of Henry VI from the last issued during
the reign of his father, and also for believing it to have
been adopted and retained as his personal emblem
through all his coinages, I will briefly endeavour to
show how far the several coinages of gold correspond with
and bear out my conclusions as to their arrangement,
together with their relation to the various coinages of