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seum a few ancient Roman coins, recently found in the vicinity 
of our city. 
«These coins were found by a person digging in, or adjacent 
to, the grounds of a gentleman’s place called Fonthill Abbey, 
situated a little to the south of the village of Rathfarnham; and 
they were given by the finder to Mr. Glennon, of Suffolk-street, 
who brought them to me as objects which I might consider of 
some interest, and accept as a token of personal regard. Per- 
ceiving, however, at a glance what the coins were, I deemed 
it desirable that they should be placed in our own Museum ; 
and, at my request, Mr. Glennon unhesitatingly acceded to me 
the privilege of presenting them to the Academy in his name. 
«It may befurther remembered that,in my former remarks 
upon the frequency of such discoveries in Ireland, I had occa- 
sion, more than once, to direct attention to the somewhat 
curious fact of the finding of Roman coins at or in the imme- . 
diate neighbourhood of this particular locality. But though 
this fact was interesting, there was nothing in it of striking 
importance—nothing that could not be, at least plausibly, ac- 
counted for. The coins so found, with one exception, were 
either coins of the early emperors, or, a8 more frequently, of 
those posterior to the establishment of Christianity by Constan- 
tine; and in either case it might fairly be conjectured that 
such coins had been brought into this country by merchants 
trafficking with Roman Britain or Gaul; or by the marauding 
Scots who so frequently warred with the Romans in the pre- 
sent Scotland; or, again, by Roman Christians who may have 
sought a refuge in Ireland from Pagan persecution. But such 
conjectures cannot be indulged in to account for the discovery of 
the coins I have now to present to the Academy ; for though 
they are Roman, they are not of the class previously noticed: 
they belong not to the times of the Empire, but to those of the 
Republic ;—in short, they present us with specimens of the as, 
and some of its subdivisions or parts, all of which appear to be 
