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COINS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS. 
precious relic, valued only for its intrinsic worth, was broken up and 
sold. It has, however, been since recovered in gTeat part and put 
together so that it can now be seen nearly complete in the British 
Museum. 
At a meeting at Doncaster, in November, 18(35, at which Lord 
Houghton presided, Mr. John Evans, F.R.S., read a paper on the 
Coins of the Ancient Britons, and more particularly those found in 
Yorkshire. In the year 600 B.C. a Greek colony was founded at 
Massilia (Marseilles). It was here the original of all our coinage was 
introduced about 330 years B.C., the ancient and beautiful Phillipus, 
on the obverse of which is a bold figure of the head of Apollo 
encircled with a laurel wreath. These coins were imitated by the 
native inhabitants of Gaul, and in course of time the imitations came 
over to Britain and were again imitated in this country. The author 
opposed the supposition that the art of coining was unknown in Britain 
until the time of Caesar, on the ground that if this had been the 
case we should have had a coinage of the three metals then in use, 
gold, silver, and bronze ; and not one of gold only, if the earlier intro- 
duction of money had taken place as already indicated. From the 
numerous occurrences of coins of Phillip in this country, Mr. Evans 
was inclined to consider the earlier date of the introduction of the 
coins the correct one. Mr. Evans referred amongst other discoveries to 
that in 1827 of a fictile vase m the vicinity of the old Roman road 
at Lightcliffe, near Halifax, in which were found Roman coins, 
together with three of the well-known Yorkshire type, with the 
inscription voLisios, in two lines, across a wreath on the obverse ; 
and a rudely-formed horse and dumxo-co-veros on tlie reverse. A 
fourth coin was a new variety, and evidently a direct descendant of 
the Macedonian Phillipus, though only the wreath and the horse 
survive to prove its relationship. 
In August, 1866, Mr. John Ffooks read a paper on the Flint 
Implements and Weapons found at Bridlington. In this paper Mr. 
Ffooks considered he had discovered characteristics in the flints 
which indicated different races of people. At some places white flint 
was used ; at others grey. Sometimes both were used by the same 
people, but there was a marked diff'erence in their form as well as 
