SOMERSETSHIRE COINS. 17 
had by this time become established. It is the one 
always made use of upon the coins of Edgar’s 
successols. 
Of Edward the Martyr we do not know of more 
than one Somersetshire specimen, struck at Bath* ; 
but from Ethelred IIto Harold II they occur in 
considerable numbers, bearing the names of what 
were then the-principal towns of the county, Bath, 
Ilchester, Taunton, Watchet, Crewkerne, Bruton, 
and Cadbury; of these by far the greatest number 
were issued from the mints of Bath and Ilchester. 
Langport has already been mentioned as presenting 
two pieces in the reign of Athelstane; and 
there is a coin of Ethelred II with the inscription 
MYLE, which has been given to Milborne Port. The 
types which are known of these nine places of mint- 
age before the Conquest, do not amount altogether 
to more than twenty-five; and the inscriptions, inclu- 
ding some minute variations, are about 125. This 
is the result of a careful examination of the Anglo- 
Saxon coins in the British Museum, and several 
other important English collections, as well as of 
those which are preserved in such great numbers 
in the Royal Cabinet of Stockholm, and which have 
been recently described in so complete a manner by 
M. Hildebrand. Some idea of the richness of this 
* See fig. 4. 
+ The author does not mean to say that he has seen the Stockholm 
collection, but that they have evidently been carefully examined by M. 
Hildebrand. The reader will observe how much the Somersetshire list 
has been augmented from his work. 
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