OFFICERS' REPORTS. xxv. 



I shall be grateful to any of our members who will kindly furnish 

 me with the names and addresses of any persons to whom the circular 

 should be sent. 



C. W. H. DICKER. 



REPORT OF THE NUMISMATIC SECTIONAL 

 COMMITTEE. 



This committee of seven members was constituted in May, 1911, 

 and held a meeting on the 26th of the following July to determine the 

 general lines of its procedure. It was decided to invite the members 

 of the Field Club to report any finds or hoards, and a subsequent 

 notice-paper contained a paragraph in these words : 



" The Numismatic Sectional Committee would be glad if Members 

 " of the Field Club would make known in their respective districts 

 " the desirability of reporting to one of the Members of the Com- 

 " mittee any Dorset finds of British, Roman, or Saxon coins, and 

 " of English coins or tokens earlier than 1700, with particulars as to 

 " locality and date of discovery, in order that the information so 

 " obtained may be recorded." 



The duties of the Committee have been, unfortunately, very light, 

 as no hoards have been brought to their notice during the past twelve 

 months. A few isolated examples of Roman and mediaeval coins 

 have, however, been reported from various districts, but nothing of 

 much numismatic interest ; and it is rather unsafe to draw any 

 inferences from such stray discoveries, as the items may have been 

 dropped accidentally at a recent period in the places where they were 

 found. 



It may be of advantage to mention in this report the discovery at 

 Poole of 366 Roman third-brass coins at a date before the inauguration 

 of the Field Club. The hoard is described in Num. Chron. N.S. IX., 

 p. 283 (1869), and is stated to have been dug up some years before the 

 list was communicated to the Royal Numismatic Society. There 

 were specimens of the coinages of eight Emperors and one Empress, 

 from Gallienus to Aurelian, both inclusive ; but there was no informa- 

 tion as to whether the find was kept together or distributed. Two 



