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in existence before 13th August, in the same year. 



Abandoning, therefore, all hope of retrieving the dead story 

 of that burial, I shall only add a few remarks on their inde- 

 pendent interest. 



Their centurial range, as to duration of circulation, has 

 already been mentioned, but their respective dates are note- 

 worthy. It is plain that some coinages were more dispersed 

 over the country, and, I suppose, were much more extensive, 

 even at London, than others. The uncommon coins of 

 Richard II. and the really scarce ones of Henry IV. are not 

 represented at all. I thought, at first sight, that we had a 

 single specimen of Richard, but it turned out to be one of his 

 predecessor's later coins. Still it has its interest. How is it 

 that Edward's previous coinages (save his earliest and rarest, 

 which does not occur,) are so overwhelming in numbers ? 

 Henry V. is decently represented. The great annulet coinage 

 comes out in force, as usual ; so does the mint of Calais, for the 

 succeeding period. Then we come to the unsatisfactory coins 

 of Henry VI. 's unhappy times, poor in execution, and as 

 numerous and perplexing in types (two coins seldom being 

 alike) as Charles I.'s. Lastly, we have three of Edward 

 IV., only one of which is in tolerable preservation. 



I will now proceed to enumerate the coins with a minute- 

 ness which the difficulty which has been felt as to the 

 marshalling of the coins of the Henries may, perhaps, justify. 

 The details must, of course, be regarded as merely supple- 

 mental to the ordinary books on the subject; and the view of 

 Pownall, Neck, and myself, (heretics all, as to English nu- 

 mismatics,) on the grand question, will be found in recent 

 numbers of the Numismatic Chronicle. 



EDWARD III. 



French and Irish titles. 



The following groats are in a "worn, clipped, and miserable 

 state. None of them are of the early coinage with the Roman M 

 in the outer margin. 



Number 



of 



Coins 



found. 



1. — Cusps above crown floured. The old c without the line 

 uniting the points retained. The a in London ctvitas 

 crossed. . . . . . .3 



2. — Same, but with blundered reading cici-tas. It has been 



