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general type common to both classes, seeing that the mint- 

 mark helmet occurs on the reverses of each. This mark is 

 not found, as far as I am aware, on any issues of the period 

 other than those of Weymouth and the SA. group. For 

 further details, such as the distinctive chain border round 

 the shields, I must be content to refer to Hawkins, pp. 333, 

 337, and 489. 



In the event of this new attribution being regarded 

 as acceptable, the transfer from Salisbury to Sandsfoot 

 would necessarily include some half-crowns and smaller 

 pieces of rude style and execution, which, although not bear- 

 ing the letters SA., have been given to Salisbury on account 

 of their resemblance to what may be described as the parent 

 type, viz. Plate, No. 3. One of the most noticeable of this 

 class is a half-crown showing a circular object beneath the 

 horse which has been spoken of as a cannon ball ; but the disk is 

 almost certainly the result of an attempt to erase the SA. 

 from the die, as, indeed, was suggested by Mr. Bergne in his 

 paper already quoted. This coin, also in the national cabinet, 

 bears as mint -marks a fleur de lys and a helmet on the obverse 

 and reverse respectively (see Plate, No. 4), and is manifestly 

 the work of the engraver who made the dies for the SA. 

 pieces. It is to be observed that the half-crowns with the 

 disk, or erasure, read regna instead of regno in the reverse 

 legend.* 



There is also a shilling (classified by Hawkins as No. 15 

 among those of uncertain mintage, but closely related in 

 style to the Sandsfoot half-crowns) which exhibits a lys as 



* Since this paper was read my friend Mr. F. A. Walters, F.S.A., 

 has sent a rubbing of yet another half-crown, which from its general 

 style should be assigned to the Weymouth-Sandsfoot group. The 

 coin shows a boar's-head as mint mark on the reverse, and is 

 apparently unpublished. This symbol probably has a topographical 

 significance, but I cannot at present locale it. Mr. Walters's half- 

 crown also shews the blundered regna in the legend which suggests a 

 local association with No. 4 on the Plate. 



