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NOTES ON A ROMAN COIN FOUND IN GRASS WOOD, QRASSINGTON, BY THE 
UPPER WHARFEDALE EXPLORATION COMMITTEE. 
Extract from Vol. II. page 831. Records of Roman History on 
Roman Coins, by Francis Hohler. 
" CoNSTANTiNOPOLis, — 3rd Brass of Constantinus Magnus. 
Obv. A female head with laureate and crested helmet to the left, 
bust in armour; over the shoulder the staff of a spear is projecting. 
Rev. No legend. In the exergum T.R.P. A victory standing on 
the prow of a galley, to the left, with a spear in the right hand; her 
left hand rests on a shield." 
ADDITIONAL REMARKS BY WILLIAM FENNELL. 
The female head represents Rome. The condition is unusually 
perfect, and the refinement of the features very striking. The 
presence of the laurel crown encircling the helmet is so uncommon, 
that while observing many hundred coins of the Constantino period, 
I have not come across one. 
Constantijie the Great was born a.d. 274, died 337. 
T. R. P. means, coined at Treves. Treveris percussum. Treveris 
being the Roman name of Treves. 
This coin was probably minted after the seat of government was 
removed from Rome to Byzantium (330 a.d.), and the idea of repre- 
senting Rome by a female head was continued, by representing 
Constantinople in the same way. 
NOTE BY ERNEST E. SPEIGHT, B.A. 
This coin was found in August, 1895, by Mr. WilHam Hill and 
James Birch, at the root of a shrub taken from the centre of an 
enclosure near the Park Stile, Grass Wood. The exact spot was the 
highest enclosure on the N. side of the pathway which leads from 
the Park Stile entrance to Gregory, just above the place where several 
millstones were found. Near the coin was found the antler-hafted 
knife which is also among the ' finds.' 
