214 



Rev. THORR ON EOFER 



2. Obv. piLLEMv REX I [for a]. Same device as No. 1. 



Rev. PINTHBEORN ON EO 



3. Obv. PILLEMV REX. The king's half face and sceptre — 



the diadem of pearls with the helm. 



Rev. ODTHNORIN ON EOFR 



Of the coins examined by Thoresby, those with the full face 

 he assigned to the Conqueror, — those with the side face and 

 sceptre, to William Rufus. 



The second York find was in the year 1845, when the work- 

 men employed in taking down the houses belonging to James 

 Lancelot Foster Esq., at the corner of Coneystreet and Jubber- 

 gate, discovered below the cellar-floor, a hoard of more than 500 

 silver coins, which as is usual on such occasions were speedily 

 dispersed. Fortunately, about 200 of them passed under the 

 examination of an eminent numismatist,^ who pronounced 

 them to be, with one or two exceptions, pennies of William the 

 Conqueror, and of the same type as those described by Thoresby. 

 Between eighty and ninety of them were coins of the York 

 mint. All the pieces, Mr. Hawkins observes, seemed to have 

 suffered in some degree from wear, and probably therefore had 

 been withdrawn from the local circulation of the place where 

 they were deposited.^ Of ten specimens of this hoard which 

 are in the cabinet of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, eight 

 have on the obverse pillemv rex ; the ninth reads pillemv 

 REX I ; and the tenth pillemii rex i. The reverses are as 

 follow : — 



1. ANTHOLF ON EO 



2. ANTHOLF ON EOFE 



3. ARCETEL ON EOF 



4. OVTHBEORN ON EO 



5. OVTHGRIM ON EOFB 



6. ROSCETEL ON EO 



7. THORR ON EOFER 



8. VLFCETEL ON EO 



9. O . THBEORN ON EO 

 10. ALEIF ON EOFERW 



* EdiT. Hawkins Esq. ' Numism. Chron., No. xxix. p. 123, 



