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is to be attributed to one of the family- Caractacus, the son of Cunobelinus 

 -who is the hero of the war with the Romans, uses his own personal name on 

 his coins, Kerat, a Celtic name nearly the equivalent of the French masculine 

 Aime — the Scotch Esme (so written from the old spelling, Aisme). 



No. 12. a small coin, had AD in monogram, and is regarded as a coin of 

 Adminius, who seems to have been the traitor who brought on the Roman invas- 

 sion. There is another coin with Aedodomarus, supposed to mean Aed Mawr, 

 or the Great. The pearl or bead pattern on No. 12 and many other coins ie 

 interesting, when it is considered that pearls were a very valuable production 

 of Britain in Csesar's time. The small animal is probably meant for a horse. 

 No. 13, also a small coin, has a crescent, with the words REX CALLE, 

 and on the other side rather a fine eagle, with letters read as Epp, probably 

 for Eppillus, the name of a historical king. The likeness of the Celtic rhys 

 and righ, king, to rex, regis, seems to have been f uUy recognised. Calle would 

 be Gaelic, not Welsh, for " wood ;" it is supposed to stand for Calleva, but 

 if the coin engraved from Camden is genuine, Oallevaj whether the town was 

 Wallingford or Silchester, is probably a mistake for Caledu, black wood. 

 Rude as these coins are, they have lain undisturbed, as Sir Thomas Browne 

 says " under the drums and tramplings of three conquests "; while the Roman 

 writings have only been preserved by recurring transcription, and, what is 

 worse, emendation. 



Catyeuchlani, if not a mistake, is another Gaelic indication — Clan Chattan 



in fact — the Welsh word lor children is plant, and I do not know that it is 

 ever used for the sept or tribe. Trino-vanus and Cassi-vellanus I assume 

 to have been the titles of the leaders, applied by the Romans to the people. 



The two coins engraved from Camden are respectively No. 26 and 30 of 



the second plate of British coins in Gibson's edition ; the first was borrowed 

 by the editors from Speed, the second from Dr Plot. 



The first has a savage-looking bust which has been supposed to be a 

 portrait, but is perhaps more likely to be intended for a classical divinity ; 



behind the head is the usual 

 circle and dot. On the other 

 side is the horse, also accom- 

 panied by the circle — and the 

 name CALEDV, whatever it 

 exactly stands for. The old 

 engraving has been accurately 

 copied ; Speed's engraver has 

 made the letters too like or- 

 dinary type. 

 The second has an important bearing on the Pictish symbols. One side is 

 left blank by the engraver ; I wish we knew what the device was ; in fact it 



would be very desirable to know 

 if any coii^s like this and the 

 last exist now. It should be 

 , mentioned here, that in looking 

 ' throughDrStuart's noble volumes 

 of the " Sculptured Stones, ' it 

 struck me in connection with Mr 

 Campbell's idea about the Spec- 



