312 Notes on Recent Discor>erics. 



The silver penny of Baldred, King of Kent, 805 — 823, was found 

 in 1905, in a garden in Old Swindon, and has since been added to 

 my collection. The obverse bears a rude head in a circle to right 

 made up of dots and straight lines surrounded by the legend 

 BALDKED EEX NT. The reverse has DANAN MONETA 

 inside of which is an ornament consisting of seven wedges and 

 six dots, placed round a small circle containing a single dot. 



Coins of Baldred are of great rarity, and therefore casts were 

 sent to Mr. B. V. Head, Keeper of Coins and Medals at the British 

 Museum, who kindly gave his opinion on it. He considers it to 

 be a unique variety. The moneyer's name is also new ; the name 

 DVNVN is known, and Mr. Head believes it to be the same name 

 as DAXAX but with the second and fourth letters reversed. 



The obverse legend is also new, as in place of the usual EEX 

 C AX^T, the coin in question has EEX NT ; the last two letters, 

 like the N and E of MONETA, being joined. 



In May, 1903, 1 found in a garden beliind Wood Street, Swindon, 

 several orange-coloured Hint flakes, one of which, 2\m. long by 

 l|in. wide, had its cutting edge for a space of l^in. serrated with 

 twenty-two teeth finely and regularly formed. " Saws " of this 

 type are very uncommon in Wiltshire. 



