By the Rev. William Allan, 31. A. 



297 



i cross, within inner circle, ring in the centre, a pyramid tipped by a 

 pellet in each angle. 



" Last important coinage in this reign/'' Head. 



Found at Chancton, now in the British Museum. 

 4 Obv. ESDJ72ERD REX Rev. ^ LEOFRED ON CRECL2S 



16. 



Type L, var. a. Plate, Fig. 12. Regarded as a separate type 

 by Willett. 



" Found only at Dover, Sandwich, and Cricklade. A very rare 

 full-faced variety/'' Head. 



Found at Chancton, now in the British Museum. 

 This specimen is i( in perfect preservation." Head. 

 !,j Obv. ^ ESDp^RD REX Rev. LEOFRED ON CRECM 



William I. and II. 



r The following coins are attributed to William the Conqueror in 

 Hawkins's Silver coins of England, but Mr. Lindsay, of Cork, (of 



j whom Mr. Hawkins says that he has great knowledge, and excellent 

 sound judgment in such matters,) in a paper in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine, September, 1835, controverts this view, and considers 

 them to belong to the reign of Rufus, placing No. 3 first in order. 

 He does so, partly, on the ground of two stars to the right and left 

 of the King's bust, which he says are the distinguishing marks of 

 Rufus on his great seal. As this argument, however, does not 

 apply to Nos. 1 and 2, which have no stars, and as they are of the 

 P.A.X.S. type, and therefore, in Ruding's judgment, belong to the 



I Conqueror's reign, I have placed them in the following order. 



1. 2. 



[William the Conqueror. ?) Plate, Fig. 13. 

 One of these was found at Beaworth in Hampshire, and is now 

 in the British Museum. It is numbered 242 in Hawkins. The 

 * other is now in the Devizes Museum, having been presented to it 

 as a penny of William I. by the late J. Y. Akerman, Esq. 



Obv. The King, full-faced, wears a crown with two arches and 

 three pearls, and holds a cross surmounted sceptre in his right hand, 

 i but with his arm across his breast, so that the sceptre is on his left 



