126 Roman Silver Coins from Gh^ovdy Wood, Wilts. _ 



Holway/ Coleraine,^ and the one published by Missoug {02?. cit.) 

 have been described with sufficient fulness to permit of detailed 

 comparison with the coins from Grovely Wood.^ The Grovely 

 Wood coins of Constantius II, of type A, are represented at East 

 Harptree by 280 specimens, at Coleraine by 14, at Holway by 13, 

 and in Missong's hoard by 11. As the numbers of the years 

 (xxx — xxxx) sliow, this issue belongs to the end of the Emperor's 

 reign. The earlier silver of Julian Caesar {rev. star in wreath, 

 without inscription) is comparatively rare, so that its absence at 

 Grovely Wood counts for little. There was but one specimen at 

 East Harptree, and none in the other hoards. 



Of later types of Julian and other Emperors, which are not 

 repi'esented in the Grovely Wood hoard, although they might have 

 been expected, the following are the most important : — 



VOT. V or VOTIS V in wreath. As this type seems to have been 

 issued at few, if any, mints outside Constantinople, its absence is 

 explained. 



RESTITVTOR REIP- The Emperor holding labarum and Victory. 

 At East Harptree, of this type there were 1 03 coins of Valentinian I, 

 and 66 of Valens, and the type was also represented at Coleraine. 

 At Holway, there was a specimen of Julian with this type. I am 

 quite unable to account for its absence at Grovely Wood, as it was 

 issued from the Western mints. 



The only types of Arcadius (who became Augustus in 383) 

 represented are the early ones B and B, and there are no coins 

 present of Honorius, who became Augustus in 393. On the other 

 hand, the latest types of Theodosius (379 — 395 ad.) seem to be 

 represented (B, C, and E being the only types of this Emperor 

 found in the other hoards and missing here). We may therefore 



' H. Christmas, in Awwt. Ghron. Nil. (1844 — 45), Piuc, pp. 9 f (tlie place 

 is wrongly called " Holwel"). 



- J. Carruthers, Nmn. Chron. XVII. (1855), pp. Ill f. 



^ It is to be hoped that Sir John Evans will soon find opportunity to publish \ 

 the account of his coins from the spot near Bristol (No. 3 in the list off 

 Somerset hoards above). 



