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deductions, found the celebrated cavern near the present 
church of St. Anastasia."* 
Allusion has been made to the coins depicting the wolf 
and twins, but the adjuncts of cave and tree do not appear 
upon any. They are chiefly of the third or small-sized 
brass, struck by Constantine the Great in honour of the 
founding of Rome, and inscribed "Urbs Roma." Mr. Roach 
Smith describes a rare silver denarius of this type, found in 
London, f In the larger brass, this design, which it is 
natural to assume would be a favourite one with the Roman 
moneyers, proves to be by no means frequent, being almost 
confined to the colonial series. J The woodcut appended 
displays the reverse of a Greek Colonial piece, struck in the 
reign of Elagabalus, and found at Jerusalem. It is inscribed 
"COL. A VP. ML. CAP." with P. F. in the exergue. 
Jerusalem, restored by JElius Hadrianus, was erected into a 
Roman colony, and named after this emperor, and also Capi- 
tolina, in honour of Jupiter Capitolinus,§ thus doubly account- 
ing for the re-production of the wolf and twins. Illustrations 
are likewise supplied of two reverses of the small coins of Con- 
stantine, just mentioned. In each case the teats or dugs of 
the wolf are carefully produced, and in no other instance 
than in the pavement before us have I found them to be 
absent. 
The general design being a most popular symbol, and 
consequently likely enough to occur to Roman artificers, it 
*Athenceum, 15th June, 1867, p. 798. 
t See his Catalogue of the Museum of London Antiquities, p. 89. 
J Cities honoured with the titles of Roman Colonies not unfrequently affected 
the design upon the reverses of their coins. 
§ Numismatic Chronicle, New Series, vol. ii., p. 116, pi. iii., No. 7. 
