XV. 



ON AX AXCIEXT BRITISII COIN FOUND NEAR WATFORD. 



By Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., Treas.R.S., 



Y.P.S.A., etc. 



Read at JFatford, Sth December, 1896. 



The gold coin, of which a figure (slightly less in diameter than 

 the original) is given above, vras found during the autumn of 

 1895 by a man who was excavating for the foundations of a house 

 at Callow Land or New Watford, about a mile from "Watford 

 Station in a northerly direction. From the finder it came into 

 the hands of Messrs. Spink & Son, from whom I obtained it. It 

 may be described as follows : — 



Obv. — Portions of a rude imitation of the laureate head of 

 Apollo on the Macedonian Philippus ; the leaves 

 of the wreath nin in opposite directions from a faint 

 transverse line ; in front are some curved lines and 

 pellets, a crescent-shaped protuberance, and a some- 

 what oval ring ornament ; behind are some veiy 

 faint traces of ornamentation. 



liev. — Disjointed horse 1., the off foreleg bent to an acute 

 angle at the knee, the near leg slightly bent in 

 front of a wheel with four spokes, from the rim 

 of which a line nms to the knee of the horse ; 

 above, a reversed T-shaped figure between two 

 slight protuberances ; the head of the horse is large 

 and its outline fonned by raised lines. 



^. 8H grains. 



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This coin is uninscribed, and differs in several respects from 

 any that have been published. In general character, however, it 

 closely approximates to coins usually found in Yorkshire and 

 in the adjoining counties to the south, such as those inscribed 

 VEP CORF. (Evans, 'Ancient British Coins,' pi. xvii, figs. 5-7). 

 The reverse is much like that of some uninscribed coins from the 

 Yorkshire district, such as Ev., pi. xvii, figs. 10, 11, but differs 

 in giving the wheel and the bent fore-leg of the horse. The 

 open character of the horse's head bears much analogy to that 

 of the head of the animal on the reverse of the coins reading 



DVMNOCOVEROS, cto. 



