The Coins of the Ancient Britons, Volume 1

  • Author(s): John Evans
  • Category: Coins & Currency
  • Publisher: J. Russell Smith
  • Publish year: 1864
  • ISBN: 9678000003263
  • Number of Pages: 496

THE want of some systematic arrangement of the coinage of the Ancient Britons bas long been felt, not only by collector's of coins, but by students of British history. It was with the view of supplying this want that the following work was commenced, and though at the outset and the author’s intention was only to give a list of such coins of this class as bad already been published, with references to the passages in the various works in which they bad been described or engraved, yet the author found that a mere index, such as he has proposed, would be of comparatively little use, and he therefore resolved to proceed on a more comprehensive plan. He found that the notices and engravings of the various ancient British coins were scattered through a considerable number of different volumes

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THE COINS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS

PREFACE

CONTENTS

PRINCIPAL AUTHORS AND BOOKS REFERRED TO

WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I. BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHAPTER II. DATE AND ORIGIN

CHAPTER III. ARRANGEMENT

CHAPTER IV. UNINSCRIBED GOLD COINS

CHAPTER V. UNINSCRIBED SILVER COINS

CHAPTER VI. UNINSCRIBED COPPER AND BRASS COINS

CHAPTER VII. TIN COINAGE

CHAPTER VIII. COINS OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS

CHAPTER IX. INSCRIBED COINS

CHAPTER X. COINS OF THE WESTERN DISTRICT

CHAPTER XI. COINS OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT

CHAPTER XII. COINS OF THE KENTISH DISTRICT

CHAPTER XIII. COINS OF THE CENTRAL DISTRICT

CHAPTER XIV. UNCERTAIN COINS

CHAPTER XV. COINS OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT

CHAPTER XVI. COINS OF THE YORKSHIRE DISTRICT