No. 58.— 1907.] 



ROMAN COINS. 



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and in small quantities together, all over Sigiriya wherever 

 excavated : summit, terraces, and the city below. Indeed, 

 during that period it almost seems as though they were the 

 current coinage of the short-lived capital of Kasyapa the 

 Parricide. Sigiriya's record in coins is as follows : — 



Punch-marked eldlings . . 8 

 Sinhalese coins of the Polon- 

 naruwa period (13th cen- 

 tury a.d.) .„ 4 



Roman coins, chiefly of 

 the 4th century a.d. . . 



1,675 



Such an enormous preponderance of one type leaves little 

 doubt that it was that in circulation. The latest Roman 

 coin is that of Honorius, who died 423 a.d., only a few years 

 before the reign of Kasyapa. 



That the coins were freely used is quite evident from their 

 worn condition, and it is quite noticeable that those of older 

 date are much more worn than those of later date. The 

 following have been identified : — 



Licinius II. , No. 1. 

 Constantinus I. , Nos. 1,2,3,4. 

 Constantinus II., No. 1. 

 Constans, Nos. 1, 4. 

 Constantius II., Nos. 1, 3, 4. 

 Constantius Gallus, Nos. 1, 2. 

 Julianus II., No. 1. 

 Helena, No. 1. 



Valens, No. 2. 

 Gratianus, Nos. 1, 2. 

 Valentinianus II., Nos. 1, 2, 3. 

 Theodosius I., Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 



6, 7. 

 Victor, No. 1. 



Arcadius, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 

 Honorius, Nos. 1, 2, 3. 



Randy. 



In January, 1905, in a jeweller's shop in Kandy, while 

 searching through a basin full of hundreds of mixed copper 

 coins, I found 84 small brass Roman coins. The jeweller did 

 not know where they had been discovered further than that 

 he had bought them from a Kandyan villager who had 

 dug them up. The following were identified and sent to the 

 Colombo Museum : — 



Constantius II., Nos. 1, 2, 4. | Theodosius I., Nos. 1, 5, 6. 



Constans, No. 3. « Arcadius, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6. 



Valentinianus, No. 1. I Honorius, Nos. 1,2. 



Gratianus, No. 1. | 



