PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL AM) POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY 
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AT THE SIXTY-SEVENTH MEETING, HELD IN THE 
COUNCIL-CHAMBER OF THE GUILDHALL, DONCASTER, ON WEDNESDAY, 
NOVEMBER 22ND, 1865, AT TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NOON. 
The Right Hon. Lord Houghton, D.C.L., in the chair. 
The Chairman having read a letter of apology from 
Dr. Vaughan, Vicar of Doncaster, who was to have presided, 
announced Charles Bartholomew, Esq., of Broxholme, as 
elected a member of the Society. 
The Chairman called upon John Evans, Esq., F.R.S., 
F.Gr.S., F.S.A., &c, gf London, to read the first Paper, of 
which the following is an abstract. 
ON THE COINS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS, AND MORE PAR- 
TICULARLY THOSE FOUND IN YORKSHIRE. 
In bringing before you a brief notice of the Coins of the 
Early Britons, I may state at the* outset that considerable 
diversity of opinion has existed amongst antiquaries as to 
whether the Britons really had a coinage of their -own ; 
and if so, as to the period of the first introduction of a 
coinage into Britain. Leland, our earliest historian of any 
note, says that in all his travels through England he could 
never meet with one British coin ; and he accounted for their 
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