ROMAN AND OTHER COINS FOUND AT LITTLE CHESTER. 2 1 



and there we must be content to leave them. They are thought 

 to be coins of Cahgula, Vitellius, and Vespasian ; as for the 

 fourth, we cannot assign either name or date for it ; the coin has 

 been a pretty one, and has evidently been obliterated by wear 

 more than by corrosion. In addition to these, we have a number 

 of Chester coins, lent by Mr. A. Ellis, of St. Peter's Street, some 

 of which are here engraved, though they are much broken and 

 corroded. We know, however, when they were found, and are 

 able to give the dates ; of these there are eight coins, but two are 

 undecipherable. They were found in 1875 and 1878. 



We have now to call attention to what is not a htde curious, 

 though it is of almost everyday occurrence. Most people know 

 that very often when they are looking for one thing, they find 

 something else they were not expecting to find. And so it has 

 happened at Little Chester. Quite a number of odds and ends 

 have been turned up, together with Roman coins, and we give 

 here some illustrations which will most likely interest a number 

 of our readers, though they, like the coins, are much worn, and 

 in one or two instances nearly obliterated. The largest of these 

 (Plate III., Fig. i) is a copper medal, having on the obverse the 

 bust of a gentleman in military dress, who wears a peruke, and 

 his head has been encircled by a wreath, and tiiere appears to be 

 a star or some kind of order on the breast ; but so far, no clue 

 has been found as to who he was, or for what commemoration the 

 medal was struck. The reverse has remains of a vigorous battle, 

 naked men fighting with clubs, and remains of horses, but their 

 riders and nearly all the contour of the horses are worn smooth, 

 and only a leg remains here and there to show there had been 

 horses at all. A long inscription under this batde scene has been 

 so filed that it is now quite obliterated. We sent this medal to 

 the late S. S. Lewis, Esq., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 

 He thought the date might be the middle of the past century, and 

 said the head had a strong family likeness to King George II., 

 but he could not certainly identify it. We shall be glad if any of 

 our readers will kindly say if any similar medal has come under 

 their observation. Mr. Lewis at first thought this medal had 



