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in fome or other of the imperial coins between the 
time of Gordian the younger and the Conftantines , 
or later. But the Angularity of the coin, I am now 
deferibing, is this ; that in the figure of Apollo the 
eyes feem plainly to be covered by a fillet, which 
goes crofs the forehead 5 the reafon of which I can- 
not undertake to account for with certainty. But 
we are told by Suetonius , that among other reflec- 
tions thrown upon Auguftus for a fecret entertain- 
ment made by him, at wh’ch the perfons prefent 
were drefied in the habit of deities, and this at a 
time of great fcarcity in Rome , Acclamatum eft 
poflridie frumentum omne deos commedijfte ; et Cae- 
farem ejfte plane Apollinem^fed tortorem. To which 
the hiftorian adds, Quo cognomine is deus quadam 
in parte urbis colebatur (1) ; which being the place 
where criminals were punifhed, is thus deferibed by 
Martial , 
Cruenta pendent qua flagella tortorum (2). 
It 
put at the bottom, often denote the place, where thofe coins were 
ftruck. And therefore, as I meet with ml by themfelves upon no 
others, but thofe of Caraufius and Allecius , who both ruled in 
Britain ; it feems not improbable, that they may ftand for moneta 
Londinenfts , or Londini , fupplying fignata or incufa. As upon 
fome coins of Conjlantinus Magnus , who was firft proclaimed em- 
perour in Britain , we find msl and mli, which may alfo be fo 
interpreted. Indeed the letters mls and mlp occur upon the 
coins of fome other emperours, where they have been read, and 
perhaps juftly enough, moneta Lugduni fignata and percujfa, 
(1) In vit. Augujl. cap. 70. 
( 2 ) Lib. II. epigr. 17. 
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