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i$th February, i< 



Mr. R. Young, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Wm, Swanston read a Paper on 



SOME OLD COINS FOUND RECENTLY BETWEEN 



TIDE-MARKS AT KILROOT NEAR 



CARRICKFERGUS. 



The next communication was by Mr. William Swanston, who 

 exhibited and gave an account of several old coins, both silver 

 and copper, recently found between tide-marks a short distance 

 to the north of Carrickfergus. The coins consisted of several 

 silver of Charles II., base coinage of Philip and Mary, a few, 

 apparently Scotch, of copper, and several local tokens, &c. Of 

 the tokens, one was by " Anthony Hall, in Carrickfergus," two 

 were of Belfast issue, but the names were undecipherable. 

 vStrange to say, there was also one Roman copper coin in fair 

 preservation ; also a seal-like article, with an inscription in 

 early English letters, and very similar in character to an 

 article in the Benn collection. 



In connection with the above subject, a copy of M'Skimin's 

 History of Carrickfergus, and the first edition of Benn's History 

 of Belfast, in which many local tokens are figured, were handed 

 round. 



