is no example of the use of E for I. I am therefore inclined to the 
opinion of Mr.Roach Smith, that see is an abbreviation of Breucorum. 
The Breuci were a warlike tribe of Pannonia, who had been subdued 
by Tiberius and Germanicus in the reign of Augustus, and who fur¬ 
nished a large body of auxiliaries to the Roman armies. No other 
auxiliaries, mentioned in inscriptions, had a name of which B R E 
are the three first letters. The Sixth Legion came from Germany 
in the reign of Hadrian, and might naturally bring with it German 
auxiliaries. It deserves notice that, in inscriptions in various parts 
of the Roman empire, cohorts of the Breuci, numbered i n m, and 
v vi vn vm occur, but none of mi. It is true that, if the boohs of 
inscriptions are to be trusted, the name is elsewhere always written 
at full length, but I do not think this decisive ; and till a better 
claimant appears, I am disposed to assign to the Breuci the honour 
of having garrisoned Cambodunum. The smaller stations appear, 
from inscriptions, to have been occupied by the cohorts of auxiliaries, 
as Bowes by the Thracians, and Ilkley by the Lingones, and not 
by the legionaries (whose memorials are chiefly found in the larger 
ones), though a legionary officer would be in command. There 
still remains a great difficulty respecting the distances given in the 
Iter; Cambodunum is made xx miles from Calcaria and xvm from 
Mancunium. Both these distances are too small, and as they no 
more agree with Gretland than with Slack, they cannot help us to 
decide between them. 
Oct. 2. —The Rev. Johx Kexeick read the following paper “ On 
the British Coins in the Society’s Cabinet.” It was illustrated by 
a series of diagrams, by John Evans, Esq., E.S.A., showing the 
origin of the Gallic and British coinage Rom the stater of Philip II. 
of Macedonia. 
It is a remarkable circumstance in the history of civilization that 
coined money, metal bearing a stamp by which value and public 
character are ascertained, should have been so late an invention. 
The Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians had attained great skill 
in metallurgy; they had written characters; they had extensive 
commerce; but in the time of their independence they never had a 
coinage. Even the Phoenicians had it not till a late period—cer¬ 
tainly not till after their subjugation by Persia. The Lydian and 
Persian gold pieces, imperfectly answer to the definition of a 
coin, as they have only the device of a lion or an archer, but no 
inscription. The Argives or iEginetans were the first whose 
