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Akerman Amminus annulet appears Arch Assoc Atrebates Augustus beaded circle Beale Poste boar Brit Britain British coins British Museum Britons Cæsar Camulodunum centre Chron coin here engraved coinage coins of Cunobeline coins of Eppillus coins of Tasciovanus coins of Verica Colchester Commius copper coins cruciform ornament DENARIUS device district Dubnovellaunus engraved in Ruding Epaticcus Eppillus exergual line figure front Gaul Gaulish coins gold coins Gough's Camden grains head in profile Hist horseman Iceni inscription Journ Julius Cæsar Kent laureate bust legend Lelewel letters Numismatic Numismatic Chronicle obverse obverse and reverse occurs open crescents Pegasus place of finding Plate F Plate VIII Plate XI possibly preceding coin prince probably reverse ring ornament Roach Smith silver coins specimen struck Stukeley Sussex tablet tail TASC TASCIO Tinc Tinc[ommius triangle of pellets tribes Trinobantes uninscribed coins Verica Verulamium weight Whaddon Chase whole wreath
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Page 132 - Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments,
Page 286 - was a warlike man and a strict observer of justice. After him Kymbelinus, his son, was advanced to the throne, being a great soldier and brought up by Augustus Csesar. He had contracted so great a friendship with the Romans that he freely paid them tribute when he might have very well refused it In his days was born our Lord.
Page 286 - Kymbelinus, when he had governed Britain ten years, begat two sons, the elder named Guiderius, the other Arviragus." After his death the "government fell to Guiderius. This prince refused to pay tribute to the
Page 286 - He had contracted so great a friendship with the Romans that he freely paid them tribute when he might have very well refused it In his days was born our Lord.
Page 13 - in the year 55 AC, and before the Roman dominion was generally established throughout this island, the Britons had a metallic currency of struck coin formed upon a Grecian model.
Page 27 - in any way advantageous—is equally at work in both cases. In nature those varieties appear to have become more or less persistent which, in the " struggle for existence," have presented advantages over the
Page 24 - to have been seized on by the barbarians who came in contact with Greek civilisation, as an object of imitation. In Gaul this was especially the case, and the whole of the gold coinage of that country may be said to consist of imitations, more or less rude and degenerate, of the Macedonian Philippus.
Page 288 - Augustus, have dedicated their offerings in the Capitol, and have brought the whole island into a state little short of intimate union with the Romans
Page 19 - pecunia."* And Caesar himself, referring to the same subject, records that before leaving Britain—" obsides imperai et quid in annos singulos vectigalis populo Romano Britannia penderei, constituit."^
Page 275 - evidently in fine preservation, and the other apparently abraded, as a variation is made in the legend. This latter was given by Camden, and is to be found in all the earlier editions of the Britannia. He gives the devices pretty correctly, but makes the legend TASCIE and