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Roman Silver Coins from Ch'ovdy Wood, Wilts. 



-^ pound not represented in 

 this hoard. 1 



As I have said above, there 

 were found, in the same pot 

 with the silver coins, two 

 bronze coins and a number of 

 rings. The bronze coins are 

 (1) of Constantius Caesar, rev. 

 GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, struck 

 at Lugdunum, in the period 

 296—304 A.D. ; (2) a coin of 

 llie fourth century, perhaps 

 of Theodosius, with rev. 

 SALVS [REIPVBLICE] -P in 

 field, mint-mark [T]R (cp. 

 Cohen,- viii. Theodosius, No. 

 30). The occurrence of the 

 former coin is strange, as no 

 others of the large module 

 characteristic of that period 

 were contained in the pot with the hoard of bronze coins. The 

 rings are of a class which has previously been associated with 

 coins of the end of the third or beginning of the fourth century. 

 They are as follows : — 



1. Silver ring, with flattened octagonal bezel formerly attached, set with 

 design of clasped hands in brass (?) ; shoulders (angular) and hoop moulded 

 and engraved. Maximum diameter, 0-95 inch. (See Fig. 1.) 



Fig. 3.— Height, 6-35 inches. 



Babelon, ihid., p. 571. 



