IV*- ^(^r^ of ci Letter to the ^uhUfher^ concerning fome 
Roman Coins^ and other matters lately ohfer^;ed In 
Lincolnfliire. ' 
SIR, , 
^"l^His comes only to acquaiat you with what may nor 
^ be improper to infert in fome of your next Phi- 
loiophical Tranfactions, vi'l. That in July laT\ one Edward 
Lentoft^ who lives with one Vhilip Wolverjion of Fleet in 
South Holland in Lhcohjbire^ being abour to fence in a 
Hay-ftack, and digging a grip for that purpofe about the 
depth of half a yard Jie ftruck his Spade upon a Pot, which 
when he broke, (felfe nothing could begot out of it) there 
was no lefs than 36 pound weight of old Roman Copper 
Coin found in it. The Pieces were found fet in rows edge- 
ways one by another, and ftuck fo together with the Ver- 
digreafc or Ruft of Copper, that many of them required a 
Chizel or fome fuch thing (o Separate them 5 but being fe- 
paratcd, clean'd and brightened, the Head$ or Figures of 
all or moft of therti were very fair, (fome as when newly 
ftamped, ) and the Infcriptions of many are very legible. 
The Fellow ( who at firft hoped for a better Treafure, 
v/hen be faw what the Pot produced) profufely and care- 
lefsly gave them away, and drfperfed .them up and^down 
the Country to fuch as defired them, and that, I fuppofe, 
for nothing, or next to nothing.^ Here Was amafs'd to^^e- 
ther a great ^variety of Coins in this Pot : They fay Dr 
Hart^ a Phyfician of Wkhich^ has a dozea of the beft 
Pieces ^ and an Apothecary at Lotjg Sutton 2, fcorc of the 
fame, the largeft and moft legible : .and Fhitip WolverftGn 
himfelf'has two or three, fo very large and fair, that he- 
fays he will not part with them; Notwithftanding there 
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