ROMAN COINS IN DERBYSHIRE. 



227 



Reverse. 



The Device & Inscription not legible, though there are faint 

 Vestiges of letters all round. 



II. The other being more dim than y e last, has on one side, a 

 head, with a radiated Diadem also, and this imperfect inscription 

 IMPC TORINVS .... AVG. 

 id est 

 Imperator Caius Victorinus Augustus. 



The reverse is quite obliterated. 



N.B. — These were two of y e Thirty Tyrants, as they are 

 generally called, who assumed the government in Gaul and Britain 

 in y e time of Gallienus y e Emperor, as Eutropius tells us. Gallienus 

 began his reign A.U.C. 1012, which was A.D. 260, and died A.U.C. 

 1 018, in which year Postumus made himselt Emperor in Gallia et 

 Britannia, which was A.D. 266. 



There was only one of copper which I found, y' was not wholly 

 eaten away with rust. But there does not remain y e least vestige 

 of a letter upon it. It has only a faint head upon it (radiate, 

 diademate, revinetum). 



Anno D. 1772. Joseph Dovvmer of Fritchley, in y e Parish of 

 Crich, ridding or clearing away a large baulk or heap of stones, 

 grown over with some wood amongst them, in a close in his 

 occupation, lying to y e south of Fritchley, between it & y e river 

 Amber, & not far from y e Bull Bridge, found several pieces of 

 Roman coin, chiefly small ones of copper, lying partly together, 

 among some large stones, eight of which pieces I got, & have 

 now by me (J. R.) this n Mar. 1778. But they are greatly eaten 

 away with rust, so y' few of them are legible. 



I. This has a faint head upon it, whether bound about with a 

 Diadem, plain or radiated, does not appear (it having received 

 damage by rubbing since found) full as much as from time, & 

 this faint inscription circumscribing y e same. 



GALLIENVSAVG. Idlest 

 Gallienus Augustus. 



