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A Find of Roman Coins near Flarlborongh. 
By the Rev. C. Soamzs. 
(Re-printed, by permission, from the Numismatic Chronicle, Third Series, 
No 39, p. 282.) 
VERY interesting find of Roman third brass coins of the 
J Constantine period has been lately made near Granham 
Hill, Marlborough. 
It would seem that the earthen pot, in which they were originally 
contained and buried, was at some recent time fractured by a plough, 
and a few of the coins being in course of time brought to the surface 
by those indefatigable excavators, the moles, a search was made, and 
about five hundred and thirty-one were found in and close to the 
remains of the vessel, which was one of unglazed earthenware of 
the ordinary Roman manufacture. 
All the coins were completely covered with rust and verdigris, on 
the removal of which wus disclosed the curious fact that they had not 
been in circulation, but were in precisely the same state as when 
issued from their respective mints; not a single coin presented any 
signs of wear. Apparently they were lost or deposited there im- 
mediately before they were intended to be used ; whether for paying 
the soldiery in the neighbouring camp of Cunetio which lay on the 
opposite hill about a mile distant, or for any other purpose, must be 
left to conjecture. 
They range in date from Licinius I. to Constantius II. There are 
however, very few of the former and only two of the latter ; but the 
mintages of Constantine, Crispus, and Constantine II. are very 
largely represented, some types of each being very abundant, 
SARMATIA DEVICTA, BEATA TRANQVILLITAS, PROVI- 
DENTIAE CAESS, D. N. CONSTANTINI MAX. AVG. of 
Constantine being especially so, as well as BEATA TRANQVIL- 
LITAS and PROVID. of Crispus and of Constantine II, On the 
