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of Stephen, which having the word eboraci inscrihed upon it, 

 is considered to have heen struck at York. Eustace is said to 

 have been sent to York by his father to be Governor of the city, 

 and in that capacity exercised the privilege of coining money. ^ 

 Only two examples of this coin are known. One, which is in 

 the British Museum, is thus described : ^ — 

 Obv. EVSTACivs. Half length figure holding a sword, pointed 



bonnet on the head, ornaments in the field. 

 Rev. EBORACI TDEFT. Cross ragulcd, within a quatrefoil. An 



annulet at the comers and in the spandrils. 



The existing coins of King Henry II. are very numerous. 

 At the commencement of his reign, and again towards the close 

 of it, new coinages were issued. 



A hoard of the pennies of Henry II. was discovered at Royston 

 in the year 1721, — another at Bramham Moor in Yorkshire 

 in the year 1756, — and a third, comprising nearly 6000 coins, 

 at Tealby in Lincolnshire in the year 1807. Coins of the 

 York mint were found in all these hoards. From the reverses 

 of the York coins of the Tealby find we obtain a few names of 

 York money ers :^ — 



GODWIN ON EVERW 

 HERBERT ON EVER 

 JORDAN ON EVERWI 

 LND ... ON EVERWI 

 WVLFSI ON EVERWI 



In the year 1846, a hoard was found at Teston in Kent, con- 

 sisting of thirty-seven silver pennies of a type which, after some 

 controversy, is now assigned by numismatists to this reign. 

 Only one York specimen was among them, but it adds the name 

 of NICOLE to the list of York moneyers previously known.* 



' Drake's Eboracum, p. 417. 



' Hawkins, p. 85. Euding reads the second word of the reverse edots, which 

 is quite as unintelligible as the more correct transcript of Mr. Hawkins. Annals, 

 Vol. II., p. 304. 



3 A description of a large collection of pennies of Henry II. discovered at 

 Tealby, in Lincolnshire. By Taylor Combe, Esq. Archseologia, Vol. XVIII., p. 1. 

 The coins of Henry II. show that in his reign there were mints at Durham, 

 Newcastle, and Lancaster. * Numism. Chron., Vol. X., p. 26. 



