A Short Survey of the Roman Coins Found on Fourteen Sites in Britain

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In the summary of the Roman coins published in the Fifth Richborough Report, I made my first attempt at expressing the coin-finds from an archaeological site in a way that would facilitate comparison with other sites. Some problems and errors of that method have already been dealt with in the Numismatic Chronicle and need not be further discussed here. It was then already obvious that before the coins from one site could safely be evaluated, a background knowledge of the coinage of the Roman province or area in question was essential, together with a knowledge of the variation of coin-finds from area to area. This sample of site-finds from varied sites in England is offered as a fourth instalment of an examination of groups of coins stretching from Rome, through northern Italy and southern and northern France, to the British frontier. Lists of coins from northern Italy, southern France and northern France have been published in the Numismatic Chronicle. I hope that a comparison of the coins from these four areas will appear following the present survey, in the next volume of Britannia.