PRESENTED BY Memorial Historico-Español. Part I. 8vo., ROYAL ACADEMY OF pp. 88. Madrid, 1851. Souvenirs de Kertch, et Chronologie du Royaume de Bosphore. Par J. Sabatier. 4to.. pp. 128, 8 plates and index pp. 11. St. Petersburg, 1849. Production de l'or, de l'argent, et du cuivre, chez les anciens, et Hôtels monétaires des Empires Romain et Byzantin. Par J. et L. Sabatier. 8vo., pp. 174, St. Petersburg, 1850. Brief an Herrn A. von Rauch über einige Trois Médailles relatives à l'histoire des Pays Une Médaille de Charles de Croy. Par Renier HISTORY AT MADRID. THE AUTHOR. DITTO. DITTO. DITTO DITTO. DITTO. Le dernier Prétendant de Looz. Monnaie de Numismatique Boulonnaise. Sur les deniers de Mathieu Comte de Boulogne. Par C. Marmin. 8vo., pp. 12, and 1 plate. Hommes et Choses. Alphabet des Passions DITTO. et des Sensations. Par M. Boucher de DITTO. Perthes. 12mo., pp. 520. Paris, 1851. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Vol.) IV. Part II. and Supplement. 8vo., Vol. THE ACADEMY. Catalogue of Roman Silver Coins in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. 8vo., pp. 96. Dublin, 1839. Catalogue of the Bank of England Library and Literary Association, instituted March 1st, 1850. 8vo., pp. 68. A Chemical examination of the Metals and PRESENTED BY W. D. HAGGARD, ESQ. Alloys known to the Ancients. thur Phillips. Svo., pp. 48. By J. Ar THE AUTHOR. William Brice, Esq. (elected January 24, 1850), and William Chaffers, Esq., F.S.A. (elected June 26, 1851), were duly admitted members of the Society. Mr. C. Roach Smith exhibited the British coin in brass, of which a cast was produced at the meeting of the 27th of February, 1851, and which is described at p. 15 of the Proceedings of the Society for 1850-51. READ.-1. A paper by the Treasurer, on a coin in third brass of the Emperor Carausius, in the collection of Mr. C. Roach Smith, and published by him in his " Collectanea Antiqua," Vol. II. p. 153, from which work the engraving of this coin in the Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. XIII. p. 150, was supplied. Obv.-IMP. CARAVSIVS P. F. AVG. rausius full-faced. The bare head of Ca In the exergue the Rev.-SALVS AVG. Hygeia feeding from a patera a serpent which rises from the base of an altar. letter C, probably for Clausentum. The type of the obverse is unique, both as to the head being bare, and the portrait full-faced. It was discovered at Wroxeter, on the site of the Roman town Urioconium or Viroconium, and was presented to Mr. C. Roach Smith by the Rev. E. Egremont. 2. A letter from Mr. Akerman to Lord Londesborough, as fol "In the summer of the present year, a gentleman resident at Cologne called on me, and shewed me several curious and rare coins of the Roman series,—among which was a Pescennius Niger in gold. Rev.-CONCORDIA P. P. Concord standing. He stated that this piece was obtained by a Missionary at Antioch, and shortly afterwards came into his possession. I examined this coin very carefully, and have no doubt of its authenticity; and I regret that I was not permitted to take an impression of it. The fabric was rude, and differed from that of the Roman mintage of this period; nor did it resemble that of the rude coins of the other candidate for the empire, Clodius Albinus, with the title of Augustus. The possessor promised me drawings of this and other curious examples in his cabinet, and I hope ere long to exhibit them to the Numismatic Society. "The same gentleman also shewed me eight sceattas, in very perfect preservation, of the types of Ruding's first plates, Nos. 4 to 14 inclusive, which he was informed had been found at Mayence by workmen employed in the repairs of the fortifications of that city. The post of this day, however, brings me a letter from the possessor, whom I had entreated to make particular enquiry in order to verify the exact spot where these coins were found, and who now informs me that he had since learnt that they were dug up in East Friesland, and that the whole number amounted to one hundred and fifty specimens. It is said, too, that there were more than forty varieties; but in what these varieties consisted, whether they were material variations from the numbers engraved by Ruding, or whether their difference consisted merely of modifications of the same barbarous types, could not be ascertained. The Numismatist must deeply regret that the particulars of this find are probably for ever lost to us; but whatever doubt may be entertained as to the actual locus in quo, we may safely conclude that a parcel of coins, of a type hitherto placed amongst the earliest specimens of the currency of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers, has been found at a considerable distance from England, under circumstances which justify our entertaining a doubt as to their supposed origin and the country of their mintage. I have the honour to remain, My Lord, "Your Lordship's faithful servant, "To the Lord Londesborough, "President of the Numismatic Society." 3. A paper by the Treasurer, descriptive of three unpublished English coins: 1. A penny of Cuthred, king of Kent. Obv.-+ĽVÐRED REX, without bust; a cross paté with a pellet in the centre; in each angle a small wedge or triangle. Rev.EABA. A tribrach with a small circle in the centre, inclosing a very small tribrach composed of three wedges; a similar wedge also in each arm of the larger tribrach. The coin in many respects resembles that engraved in Ruding, Plate III. No. 3, and especially the fragment, No. 54, in Hawkins. 2. A penny of Baldred, or Beldred, king of Kent, the successor of Cuthred, and the last of the sovereigns of that division of the heptarchy. Rev.-DVNVN MONETA. A cross moline in the centre. The peculiarities of the R being rather like an F, and also that of the back of the hair, or the ear, being indicated by a Mercian M, which are found in the obverse of the coin No. 58, in Hawkins, occur also on this specimen. The A in the king's name is inverted, The mode of abbreviating the word Cantii differs from that on any other coin of Kent; and the form of the C is very peculiar. The coin was found near Guildford, and has unfortunately met with rough usage. 3. A penny of William the Conqueror. PI The reverse of this coin is of the type No. 233 of Hawkins, and the obverse also resembles that type in general style; but the head is turned in the opposite direction, and is larger, filling up more completely the field of the coin. 4. A letter from Mr. Evans, in which, referring to a communication from Mr. Rashleigh (Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. XII. p. 165), descriptive of a coin resembling the pennies of Stephen, but reading PERERIC, and supposed to have been struck by an Earl of Warwick; and to another specimen exhibited by Mr. Webster, on the 28th of November, 1850 (see Proceedings for 1850-51, p. 5), he mentions a third variety which he had discovered in the Museum Collection, and which had hitherto been considered as a coin of Stephen. 66 5. A paper by Mr. Williams, giving an account of a second work on Chinese coins, in the library of the Society, entitled a List or Catalogue of Imperial Authorised Money." 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