62 BRITISH AND ROMANO-BRITISH COINS. 



finder near Weymouth. 2 Its present resting place is unknown to 

 me, but fortunately I made a note of the inscriptions. The 

 type is so rare in Dorset that I have ventured, in the absence of 

 the rightful coin, to interpose for inspection a foreign-found 

 example, which differs mainly in being of the tenth year of 

 tribunitian power, viz., A.D. 50. [Plate No. 2.] 



Of the immediate successors of Claudius there are no coins 

 (except one bearing his son's name) which make allusions to 

 Britain, although we might expect that Vespasian, after he was 

 proclaimed Augustus, would have thus commemorated his 

 previous military exploits in the southern portion of this island, 

 seeing that Titus recorded the capture of Jerusalem ten years 

 after the event. On the other hand, the prosperous reign of 

 Hadrian the travelled gave us half-a-dozen varieties in brass of 

 British types, but I cannot point to even one as having been 

 found within our borders ; a regrettable void, as this Emperor's 

 period may be said to show the high-water mark of the Roman 

 engraver's skill in portraiture, the designs being also of much 

 historical interest. 



ANTONINUS Pius, A.D. 138 TO 161. 



Second-brass, or As., A.D. 155. 

 2. O. ANTONINVS. AVG. PIVS. P.P. TR. P. XVIII. 



Laureate head to right. 



R. BRITANNIA. COS IIII. In ex: SC. A woman 

 seated ; on the left are a shield and standard. [Plate 

 No. 3.] 



The figure on the reverse is regarded as a personification of 

 the Province ; a mourning Britannia seated upon the inhospitable 

 rocks of her native land, with Roman emblems alongside as a 

 confession of defeat. This specimen (found at Clyde Path Hill, 

 Dorchester), belongs to a type which the excavator-antiquary 



2 From this neighbourhood Mr. C. Warne obtained, as did Mr. Hall, many fine 

 specimens of Boman money. 



