134 A Hoard of Bom an Coins fonoid at Baynton, Wilts. 



GLORIA EXERCITVS legend on the reverse side, with two ex- 

 ceptions. The variants are one of Constans with SECVRITAS 

 REIPVB. (Figure leaning on a column and holding a sceptre inr.h.), 

 and one of Constantius II with VIRTVS AVGG. NN. {The Emperor 

 standing, holding a, javelin reversed in r. h., his I. h. resting on a shield). 

 All the reverse legends of Helena are PAX PVBLICA (Beace 

 holding an olive branch in r. h., and a transverse sceptre in I. h.) ; 

 and of Theodora, PIETAS ROMANA [Biety, or Theodora, nursing, or 

 suckling, a child). 



The nummus centenionalis of Crispus bears the following legend 

 on the obverse :— D . N . FL. IVL. CRISPVS NOB . CAES. Head to r., 

 laureated. Bev. : — lOVI CONSERVATORI. Jupiter, nude, standing 

 to I., holding in his r. h. a globe surmounted by a Victory, and a 

 sceptre surmounted by an eagle in his I. h. ; at feet on his I. side an 

 eagle holding a ivreath or croion in its beak ; on his r. side a seated 

 captive. In field III and a star. Mint-mark SMKA (Cyzicusy 

 —Cohen No. 77. 



Of the 90 coins of Constantinopolis one is an incuse impression 

 of the obverse arising from the previously struck coin not having 

 been removed from the die before the new blank coin was put on. 



The Chi Eho monogram can be traced on only four of the 356 

 coins — a small proportion. 



The mint-marks represented are Aquileia, Constantina- (Aries), 

 Cyzicus (Propontis), Heraclea (Thracia), Lugdunum (Lyons), 

 Nicomedia (Bithynia), Eoma, Siscia (Pannonia), Tarraco (Tarra- 

 gona, Spain), Thessalonica (Macedonia), and Treviri (Treves). 



We will now proceed to describe the coins in detail, dealing 

 firstly with the obverses. 



' General Pitt-Rivers found a coin of Constantina I having a similar reverse 

 in Bokerly Dyke (Excavations in Cranhorne Chase, vol. iii., p. 165, and 

 PI. cxc, fig. 37). 



- Mr. H. A. Grueber, F.S.A., Keeper of the Coins and Medals in the British 

 Museum, informs me that when Constantine I rebuilt Aries in A.D. 324, he 

 changed the name from Arelatum to Constantina. 



