2 26 ROMAN COINS IN DERBYSHIRE. 



IV. A small coin of y e Emperor Dioclesian as appears by y e 

 form of y e head. There remains no more of y e Epigraphe than 



VSAVG. 



Both y e inscription & figure upon y e Reverse are wholly illegible. 



On y e 26 of July, 1761, some Laborers getting Limestone for 

 Mr. Reynolds on y e south side of Crich Cliff, near y e summit 

 commonly called y e Parsons Nab, they discovered y e foundations 

 of a small Building, about 10 feet square, built of grit, orfellstone, 

 but unhewn, & not laid in mortar or any kind of cement whatso- 

 ever. Within this compass were several pieces of charcoal inter- 

 mixed with y e earth & diverse pieces of broken tiles lying within 

 & without y e same. These pieces were all small, y e largest not 

 exceeding y e size of a man's hand, and made of exceeding red 

 clay. The sides of some of y e pieces were turne d up at right 

 angles, — better than half an inch. Some of these pieces are 

 very soft & rotten ; others very hard, & of a bluish cast, 

 being almost vitrified. They also found several Roman coins 

 within y e area (for I was present (J. R.) some lying by odd 

 ones, and some sticking 3 or 4, or more in lumps, as sealing- 

 wafers will do, which upon parting all crumbled to dirt, nay 

 even you could not so much as clean y e dirt off by washing 

 without breaking y e coin in pieces y e pernicious quality of y e 

 earth having rendered them quite rotten. There happening to 

 be 3 among them of Tin, or some other hard while metal, not 

 so much decayed as y e others which were of copper, I made 

 shift to discover whose coin 2 of them are, but y e 3 rd I could 

 not — all y' is possible to be discovered thereon, being only 

 a head wearing a radiated Diadem. 



I. On one of these Tin ones (as I call them) is a head, adorned 

 with a radiated Diadem, & having a pretty large beard on y e chin, 

 & this circumscription 



IMPCPOSTVMVSPFAVG. id est 

 Imperator Caius Postumus, Pius, Felix Augustus. 



