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former monarch were found, the legends of which are so imper- 

 fect as to be scarcely intelligible : — 



1. Obv. HENR. ... 



Rev EVERWIC 



2. Obv 



Rev Ev 



York is placed by Ruding in his list of the mints of King 

 Stephen,^ whose coins are rare and seldom found in good con- 

 dition. The only York coins of this reign that I have seen 

 described are the following imperfect specimens from the Wat- 

 ford hoard : — 



1. Obv NE RE 



Rev. MARTIN . . . . ER 



2. Obv. STI. .NE REX 



Rev. OTBO V. .WIG 



3. Obv. STIEFNE R. 

 Rev. SIBERN . . , . ER 



4. Obv. S . . . ENE REX 

 Rev. TVRSTAN ON EVER 



5. Obv ENE REX 



Rev ON EVERW 



6. Obv. S. . .ENE . .X 

 Rev. VLF. . ON EVERWIC 



7. Obv. STIEFNE 



Rev F ON EVER 



In the year 1684, a few silver coins were found at Cattail 

 near Wetherby, which upon examination proved to be of types 

 of extraordinary rarity.^ One was a coin of King Stephen — 

 another, of his son Robert Earl of Gloucester — a third had on 

 the obverse two figures supposed to represent Stephen and 

 Matilda — and the fourth was a coin of Eustace the eldest son 



1 Annals, Vol. I., p. 169. 



2 These coins were originally described by Tboresby, (Due. Leod. p. 350,) -who 

 states that they were found by a person employed in dighting, i. e. spreading the 

 mole-lulls, upon the ings at Cattail, a village which stands on the banks of the river 

 Nidd near the spot where it is crossed by the antient military road from Castleford 

 to Aldborough. 



