366 Coventinas Fountain, by the Rev. J. C. Bruce, LL.D. 



necessary to guard, and carried off an unknown number of coins ; 

 not less, it is supposed, than three or four thousand. 



The number of coins of all sorts in Mr Clayton's possession is 

 13,487 ; the number in the well originally cannot therefore have 

 been less than sixteen thousand. Of those in Mr Clayton's posses- 

 sion about two thousand are so much obliterated that they can- 

 not be recognised. 



The number of emperors and imperial personages represented 

 in this vast mass of coins is about 90. The earliest pieces are 

 three of Marc Antony's legionary denarii very much worn ; 

 dating from about the year 30 before Christ. The latest coins 

 are those of Gratian who was killed A.D. 383. 



Of the early emperors, Augustus and Tiberius are scantily re- 

 presented. There are 20 coins of Claudius and more than 50 of 

 Nero. There are 6 of Galba and one, a denarius, of Otho. Of 

 the coins of Vespasian and Titus there are 550. Domitian has 

 485 and Nerva 82. After this the coins become more numerous. 

 Of Trajan there are 1,772; of Hadrian and Sabina 2,431 ; of 

 Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina 2,829 ; of Marcus Aurelius 

 and his wife, the younger Faustina, 1,355 ; of Lucius Verus and 

 his wife Lucilla, 170 ; of Commodus and Crispina, 246 ; after 

 this the coins belonging to each reign are comparatively few in 

 number. Of Severus and Julia Domna there are only 64 ; but 

 the larger part of these (39) are silver. Amongst the coins of 

 the preceding emperors there is but a very small proportion of 

 silver. The emperors between Septimius Severus and Constan- 

 tine the Great, are for the most part represented by units. 

 Those which number a score or more are Gallienus, 83 ; Claudius 

 Gothicus, 72 ; Postumus, 35 ; -Yictorinus, 71 ; the Tetrici, 81 ; 

 Maximian, 46 ; Carausius. 25 ; Constantius, 27 ; and Constan- 

 tine the Great, 200. Those of the family of Constantine are 

 comparatively numerous, though it is difficult to assign each to 

 the proper individual. 



In this great "find" no coins previously unknown to numis- 

 matists occur. It contains, however, some rare coins and several 

 of great interest. The coins of the two Faustinas are particularly 

 numerous, there being 688 of the elder and 666 of the younger ; 

 showing the powerful hold which these two ladies — not the most 

 fastidious of their sex — had upon the affections of their indulgent 

 husbands. Still more remarkable is the occurrence of 327 second 



