172 8IR JOHN EVANS — ON ROMAN COINS 



A third of tlie hoard consists of coins of Severus Alexander, with 

 a great variety of reverses, but among them none that can be 

 classified as rare. Perhaps the most scarce is one with fides 

 EXEECirvs (Cohen, No. 49). Of those with the legend fides 

 MiLiTVM there were three examples, one with Fides seated and two 

 with Fides standing (PI. IV, Fig. 8). 



The coins of his wife, Sallustia Barbia Orbiana, are certainly 

 rare, but three specimens, with the reverse concordia avgg., were 

 present (PI. IV, Fig. 9). There were none in the Lime Street 

 hoard. 



The coins of Julia Mamaea, the mother of Alexander, are 

 numerous in the deposit, but none exhibit rare reverses. 



The coins of Maximinus I are all of a common character, but 

 that of his son Maximus is of considerable rarity, though it bears 

 a device trite on the coins of the Caesars, peinc. ivventvtis 

 (PI. IV, Fig. 10). 



The reverses on the coins of Gordianus Pius are for the most 

 part common, but that of diana lvcifeea is scarce, and seems 

 more fi^tting for a coin of an empress than for one of an emperor 

 (PL IV, Fig. 11). One with fides milix. presents a variety not 

 given in Cohen. 



The coin of Pupienus, the colleague of Balbinus, whose reign 

 lasted but three months in a.d. 238, is rare, and, moreover, the 

 coins of this Emperor but seldom occur in Britain, though two 

 were present in the Lime Street hoard, already frequently men- 

 tioned (PL IV, Fig. 12). 



The coins of Philippus I are common, though those recording 

 the Ssecular Games on the thousandth anniversary of the foun- 

 dation of Rome, with the wolf and twins, and what may be 

 regarded as a miliarium rather than a cippus, are highly interesting. 



The coin of Philippus II is rather scarce, but veiy well known. 

 Those of Trajanus Decius, relating to his campaigns in Dacia and 

 Pannonia, are interesting, but not rare, and those of his w^ife 

 Etruscilla and his son Herennius close the list. They bear but 

 ordinary devices upon them. 



The coin of Herennius must have been struck in the year 

 A.D. 249 or 250, as it gives his title as Caesar. He received the 

 title of Augustus in a.d. 251, and together with his father was 

 killed in battle near Abricium, in Thrace, in that year. 



The probability, therefore, is that the Brickendonbury hoard, 

 which, so far as I know, includes no coins of Trebonianus Gallus, 

 was deposited about a.d. 250 or 25 L It consequently seems to 

 have been buried at about the same time as that which was found 

 in Lime Street, the coins in which extended fi'om the days of 

 Commodus to those of Trajanus Decius * In describing that hoard 

 I remarked that "of what was taking place in Britain at the 

 period when Decius, Gallus, Volusian, ^milianus, and Valerian 

 successively wore the purple, we know but little. This country 



* 'Num. Cliron.,' Srd ser., vol. ii, p. 60. 



