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or Durotriges it is difficult to determine, though I think it 
must have been by the last tribe. The type had now arrived 
at that state of degradation which rendered it so easy to copy 
that there was no inducement for variation, and it therefore 
became persistent. It is remarkable that in this district 
both silver and brass coins were struck of the same module 
and of the same type as the gold, while in all the other parts 
of Britain coins made of the inferior metals are, as a rule, of 
smaller size and of different types. There is also another 
peculiarity attaching to this district, viz. — that it never 
had an inscribed coinage, though a little to the north, in 
Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, and part of Wilts, an 
inscribed currency was adopted, but at a later period, 
and derived from a different modification of the prototype, 
and comprising silver coins of a totally different module and 
character. Following the extension of the British coinage 
westward, beyond the territory of the Durotriges, it appears 
very doubtful whether the Damnonii, who occupied Devon- 
shire and Cornwall, though not wholly unacquainted with 
the use of money, ever had a coinage of their own, as no 
purely British coins, as far as I am aware, have ever been 
found in Devonshire ; and the only discovery of British coins 
in Cornwall, with which I am acquainted, is that of Karn 
Bre, which were of classes more commonly found in the 
southern counties to the east of Devonshire. In Buck- 
inghamshire and Oxfordshire, the district occupied by the 
Catyeuchlani, various early types have been found, and 
the same has been the case in Herts, Beds, and Essex, the 
country of the Trinobantes. It is somewhat remarkable 
that no types can at present be assigned with certainty 
to the Midland counties, though it is most probable that 
some of the modifications of the original prototype were 
struck there, which connected the coinage of those 
counties with the barbarous descendants of the Philippus 
