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enough to secure two aurei, one of Gratian, the other of Honorius, 

 both found more than 30 years ago in the Leauces, Again, at 

 Captain C. C. Abbott's sale in December, 1869, an aureus of Valen- 

 tinian, which had been found in making the New Road, Cirencester, 

 was sold to a dealer, from whom I subsequently re-purchased it. A 

 little later on I obtained a fourth aureus from Barnwood, a suburb 

 of Gloucester. From time to time I have been able to add some two 

 dozen silver coins to this new collection, some of these specimens 

 coming from Cirencester, but the majority from Gloucester. Simi- 

 larly I have secured a fair number of second and third brass, and 

 quite recently a fine private collection of Roman silver and brass 

 has come into my hands. This collection amounts to nearly 400 

 specimens, of which about 300 have been found in Cirencester, or. 

 close by. If only a few of the inhabitants of the town will share 

 with me the expense of the acquisitions just mentioned, the whole 

 of them shall become the public, and, as far as I can make them, 

 the inalienable property of modern Corinium. 



It would be impossible on the present occasion to present an ac- 

 count of recently-discovered coins, which should be at once interesting 

 and complete. Those desirous of investigating the subject will, I 

 hope, before long have an opportunity of consulting a catalogue 

 which I am about to publish. Here I merely mention that Roman 

 coins have been found not only in digging foundations for houses 

 within the ancient city walls, but also at many places at some dis- 

 tance from Corinium. At Stratton many good specimens have been 

 obtained ; so too at Bisley, and further still, at Bourton. Kingsholm, 

 and Barnwood, at Gloucester, have also furnished excellent specimens. 

 In all these cases the later coins predominate, those of the early 

 imperial period being rare. But at Latton the range of dates was 

 most extensive, and though the coins of Claudius, Nero, Vespasian, 

 and Nerva were abundant, still there were many examples of Carau- 

 sius and the Emperors of the fourth century. I do not recollect any 

 recently-found coin of a later date than that of the Western Emperor 

 Honorius (395), or the Eastern Emperor Arcadius I. (383). It is 

 perhaps worthy of note that the coins of some of the Emperors who 

 reigned for such brief periods as a few months only or even a few 



