22 ROMAN AND OTHER COINS FOUND AT LITTLE CHESTER. 



some satirical allusion to the Duke of Cumberland, who con- 

 quered at CuUoden, but he abandoned the idea on further 

 consideration. Next we have one of the coins often found in 

 churches and churchyards (Plate III., Fig. 2), when the soil has 

 been turned up for restorations or other purposes, known as coffin 

 money. These coins are of brass, and usually very thin, and it 

 must be said they are generally of excellent design. There was 

 most likely a small ornament under the crown, but we were 

 unable to make out what — probably a cross or a flower. The late 

 F. J. Robinson, the architect, had several similar coins which had 

 come into his possession in the course of his professional duties, 

 and recently two of these coins came to light at Worthington 

 Church. One of them we saw. It was a Nuremberg token, but 

 had evidently been used for the same purpose as that we here 

 engrave. Then we have a Danish coin of thin brass, also 

 figured (Plate III., Fig. 3), and next, oddly enough, a token or 

 medal having a good head of her present Majesty, and on the 

 reverse a very spirited representation of a soldier on horseback 

 riding over a dragon or some such beast, with the legend " To 

 Hanover." There is part of a date 183 , quite plain, but the 

 fourth numeral flattened so as to be undecipherable. It looks 

 like a I, or 1 83 1. It is of copper, and has the edges milled. 

 Can it liave been a spurious sovereign ? The Rev. C. Kerry 

 suggests that it may be 1837, the year of the Queen's accession ; 

 if so, the die has been struck by someone adverse to the House 

 of Hanover. The design is excellent (Plate III., Fig. 4). 

 There were also the three small leaden circlets, of which an 

 illustration was given in the previous article, with some remarks 

 upon them by Dr. Cox. No satisfactory raison d'etre has yet 

 been found for them. We now proceed to give a continuation 

 of the list of coins, describing them, as far as we are able, and 

 supplying such historical notes as may seem desirable. 



First, the coin — thought to be one of Caligula — and the three that 

 follow, were all so much corroded that we are only able to describe 

 them with some hesitation, and we shall be glad to be corrected if 

 we have been misled into an error in the case of any one of them. 



