Abstract

The details of the design are much clearer than on the only other specimen, which is also in the British Museum, which it reached from the Evans Collection. That specimen is somewhat wasted and now weighs only 12 grains, o0.78 grams. It was first recorded in Monumenta Historica Britannica (1848) pl. I, 48 and again illustrated in Num. Chron. xvi (I854), 8o, No. I2. It is the actual coin illustrated as Evans XIII 7 and Mack 314. There is no record of its find spot. (PL. XI B, No. 2). If the two coins came from the same dies, as is probable, then Waddon Hill coin, which is worn, is probably from the dies in a later state. The reverse type is however so close to the following bronze coin, so far unique, that the two must be related:

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