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what we now call the home counties. And the fact that his coins 
are found in greatest numbers in that district warrants the conclu¬ 
sion that names unknown to history represent rulers of those 
regions in which the coins so inscribed abound. Uninscribed coins 
may, from a resemblance in type and fabric, be safely referred to 
the same ruler, or at least the same kingdom, as the inscribed. 
Following out these principles, Mr. Evans arranges the British 
coins in six classes : the Western district, the South Eastern, the 
Kentish, the Central, the Eastern, and the Yorkshire or Brigantian. 
The largest numbers have been found in Kent, according with the 
fact which Caesar notices, and which subsequent history confirms, 
that this was the most civilized province of Britain ; the Brigantian 
district is the poorest. Besides the Lightcliffe and Almondbury 
hoards, only one discovery has been made in Yorkshire—at 
Pickering. In Lancashire, and the counties north of York, none 
at all. This, too, accords with history. The Brigantes were a 
powerful and warlike race, but except in the immediate neighbour¬ 
hood of the Poman stations their civilization was late and imperfect. 
All the British coins are coarse copies of the stater of Philippus, 
through the medium of copies by the Gauls ; but the Brigantian are 
the rudest of all, and without the continuity of degradation which 
is manifest in comparing a series of specimens, it would have been 
impossible to have established their original derivation from 
Macedonia. There are now only five of these coins in our cabinet, 
the other three were probably duplicates, and have been parted 
with in exchange. No. 1 in the catalogue has on the concave side 
a rude figure of a horse and the letters yep. and copf. Their 
meaning is imknown; but from analogy we may conclude they are 
part of the name or title of the ruler of the country. The British, 
like the Gallic, coins are very much dished , as it is called—concave 
and convex. The letters are evidently Poman, the ligature of v 
and ce being copied. No. 2 is a duplicate of No. 1, the legend coPvE 
being less perfect. No. 3 on the concave side has dvwxoco yer os 
and a horse; on the convex side in two lines yo si, which, from a 
more perfect example, No. 4, appears to have been the beginning 
of volisios. No. 5, which I believe is unique, has the usual type 
on the convex side; on the concave iisyp, and below the horse cv 
or sv. The metal of these so-called gold coins is exceedingly base; 
their weight varies from 3 dwt. 34 gr. to 3 dwt. 14 gr. There is also 
a silver coin, weighing 20 gr., having the figure of a horse on one 
side and a head rudely formed on the other. Also one of base 
