ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
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having been counted at 29,773. They were buried at the spot 
marked E on the map, rather less than half-way between Black- 
moor House and Woolmer Pond, where they were found, covered 
by about two feet of soil, on the 30th of October, 1873, by some 
workmen employed in trenching ground for a plantation. The 
upper parts of both vases were much broken, probably by 
agricultural operations. The coins in them were closely caked 
together (see Plate VII., showing part of those in one vase, 
after man}'- had been removed), and completely filled what was 
left of the vases. They were all coated, more or less, with 
green oxide of copper. Some fragments of the broken parts of 
the vases, and a small piece of the bottom of a Roman mortar, 
were soon afterwards found near the same spot ; but nothing 
else was there discovered. 
The coins, on examination, were found to be chiefly bronze^ 
varying from a size rather larger than a shilling to less than 
sixpence, those of the same size being often of very unequal 
thickness and weight. There were also a laige number, princi- 
pally denarii, of or plated witli the base metal called by 
numismatologists " billon." Of the whole quantity, about one- 
third only have been cleaned; 24985, having been soited, prove 
to be as follows : — 
Gordian the younger (emperor A. D. 238 — 244) 2 
Philip the Arabian (emperor A. D 244—249) 1 
Otacilia (wife of Philip) ; . 1 
Volusian (son and associate of Gallus, >vlio was emperor a.d. ) , 
252—254) i ^ 
Valerian (emperor a.d, 254—260) 25 
Gallienus (son and associate of Valerian, and sole emperor from \ o .yiq 
A.D. 260 to 268 ! ^'^ -^ 
Salonina (wife of Gallienus) 285 
Saloniuus (son of Gallienus) 6 
Postumus (Tyrant in Britain and Gaul, a.d, 258—265) 294 
Lfelianus (ditto, a.d. 265) 8 
Marius (ditto, a.d. 265) ... , . 56 
Victorinus (ditto, a.d 26S— 268) 4,305 1 
Tetricus Augustus (ditto, A.D. 268— 271) \ |j 95^'^ 
Tetricus Cresar (son of Tetricus Augustus) ^ 
^ There may be some of Postumus (uncleaned) among those of A^'ictorinus. 
2 The uncleaned coins of the younger Tetricus have not been separated from 
those of the elder. Of those which have been cleaned, the coins of the elder arc 
to those of the younger in the proportion of 27 to 11. 
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