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defeated them. Coins were struck to commemorate the victories 
in Britain. Of Severus's gold and silver rare reverses Akerman 
gives 171 which include the Emperor on horseback, the three 
Emperors (Severus and his sons) on horseback, full faced head of 
Julia Domna between those of Caracalla and Geta, heads of 
Caracalla and Geta face to face, one laureated. On others are 
depicted Victory, Equity, Hope, Ceres, Bacchus, Hercules, Mars, 
Fortune, Cybele on a lion, Jupiter, Venus, the winged head of 
Medusa, and the head of Jupiter Ammon. 
Julia Domna was married to Severus in 173 and died in 217. 
Akerman gives 65 rare reverses on her coins as Diana, and Juno 
.with Peacock, and Concord. The obverse has the head of the 
Empress and around it Julia Augusta. (24). 
Bassianus, nicknamed Caracalla from his Gaulish dress, agreed, 
on the death of his father, to share the empire with his brother 
Geta, whom he murdered the following year. When Caracalla 
was created Caesar by his father in 196 he took the names of 
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, and as these appear on his coins they 
are sometimes confused with those of the philosopher, Emperor 
Marcus Aurelius. The words “Antoninus Pius” on Caracalla’s 
coins also appear on the coins of the Emperors Antoninus Pius, 
and Elagabalus. On one of Caracalla’s, found at York, he is 
styled Britannicus, and on the reverse is a figure of Serapis 
standing. 
Lucius, or Publius Septimius Geta, was born in Milan about 
189. On a coin (26) of his found in York he is also styled 
Brit(annicus), and on the reverse is a figure of Victory and the 
words Victoriae Brit(annicae). 
A hoard of nearly 200 silver coins was found in Railway Street 
in March 1898, 15 of them are in the Museum, they comprise coins 
of Trajan, Commodus, Faustina, etc. 
The Roman bronze coinage consists of large, middle, and small 
brass. Coins of Trajan (27) and Hadrian (28) will serve as 
examples of the large brass series. The reverse on the former 
bears the well known S.P.Q.R., whilst on that of the latter Fortune 
is shown. It was during the reign of Trajan that the camp at 
York was surrounded by a stone wall, while Hadrian was the 
builder of the Great Wall from the Tyne to the Solway. 
A hoard of coins, found in January, 1856, at Methall, near 
Warter, was presented by Lord Londesborough to York Museum. 
The coins were sorted as follows : Valerianus 2, Gallienus 202, 
