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transformation has taken place ; the horses of the chariot are 
distorted into something which undoubtedly was meant to be 
a horse, but which I feel great diffidence in presenting to a 
Yorkshire audience as a specimen of that noble animal. Some 
of the horses have the most fantastic shapes ; that there were 
originally two is indicated by a double set of legs to one 
body : again, we see the head, legs, and tail all disjointed, 
and so distorted as to be only recognized as such by tracing 
them through a series of types. The same occurs with the 
head of Apollo. On some coins all recollection that a head 
was being represented appears to have been entirely absent ; 
on others the face has completely disappeared, and a central 
rounded projection where it should be is all that remains. 
In others we see the head beginning to assume a cruciform 
appearance : further on it has been reduced to a regular 
cruciform pattern or flower, but with crescents in the angles 
of the cross to represent the locks of the front hair, and 
eventually no part of the head remains. On some coins the 
obverse is perfectly smooth and even. 
There are two series of British coins,— one the inscribed and 
the other the uninscribed series; and although it is difficult 
to state the particular tribes to which they may have 
belonged, it is not difficult to see that the uninscribed series 
are, as a rule, of earlier date than those inscribed with the 
names of princes which belong to a more civilized era. By 
means of the conventionalized pattern previously referred 
to, the inscribed coins can be traced to their prototype, as for 
instance those of Tasciovanus, Eppillus, Dubnovellaunus, and 
Tine (ommius), which are all evidently descendants from the 
same original, though widely differing in type. Now as we 
have the means of assigning a date to all these four princes, 
it will afford a clue to the probable date of the earlier coins. 
Tine (ommius) and Eppillus appear to have been the sons of 
Commius, the Atrebatian mentioned by Ctesar in his Com- 
