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 gouts foun6 in porsef. 



By HENRY SYMONDS. 



(Read ISth Feb., 1909.) 



AUTHORITIES. Evans' " Coins of the Ancient Britons." 1864 and '90. 

 "Mouumenta Historica Britannica." 1848. 

 Cohen's " Mudailles Imperiales," 2nd Ed. 

 Akerman's " Coins of the Romans relating to Britain." 1844. 



earliest history of the circulating medium 

 used by the ancient Britons in the tract of 

 country now known as Dorset is still veiled 

 in considerable obscurity, and for the greater 

 part of such information as is available we 

 are indebted to the untiring industry of the 

 late Sir John Evans, who made the subject 

 particularly his own. 



It is at all events established, as far as 



place of discovery can do so, that the Durotriges had a monetary 

 system expressed in silver, bronze, and gold coins, which are 

 without inscriptions on either side, and which are found almost 

 exclusively within the confines of their territory. So purely local 

 arc these pieces that they are described as the South-Wcstern or 



