BRITISH AND ROMANO-BRITISH COINS. 6 1 



perhaps be added the coins of Cl. Albinus when governor of the 

 province, and after he had been raised by Severus to the dignity 

 of Csesar and had usurped the title of Imperator in the island. 



The expedition of Julius in B.C. 55 was too ineffective to leave 

 any traces on the currency, and nearly a hundred years elapsed 

 before the Romans made another and more sustained effort to 

 occupy the country. The result of this second invasion is shown 

 by the issue of the first of the coins to which I would draw 

 attention. 



[By the courtesy of Captain Acland I have been enabled to 

 include descriptions of some additional types of Romano-British 

 coins found in the district and now in the Dorset County 

 Museum; these items are marked with the initials D.C.M. in the 

 following list.] 



CLAUDIUS, A.D. 41 TO 54. 



Denarius, A.D. 46. 

 i. O. TI. CLAVD. CAESAR. AVG. P.M. TR.P. VI. 



IMP.XI. Laureate head to the right. 

 R. DE. BRITANN upon an arch surmounted by an 



equestrian statue between two trophies. 



This coin was struck by Claudius on the occasion of his return 

 from Britain after a not too arduous campaign of sixteen days in 

 A.D. 43. Dion Cassius tells us that the Senate ordered, among 

 other honours, the erection of a triumphal arch in Rome, and 

 conferred for the first time the name of Britannicus upon the 

 Emperor and his ill-starred young son. 



The foundations of this arch have been discovered in the Via 

 Flaminia, and the denarius, with its sister coin the aureus, provide 

 contemporary representations of the structure. A peculiar 

 interest attaches to this reverse, in that it refers to the only 

 recorded instance of a triumph and an arch being voted to a 

 wearer of the purple who had subdued the Britons. A denarius 

 of this uncommon type was shown to me some twelve years ago 

 by a friend to whom it had been sent for examination by the 



