LONDON:
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN, Le BAS & LOWREY,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
1886.
Table of Contents
| COINS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS. | [3] |
| COINS OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS. | [19] |
| ENGLISH COINS. | [33] |
| TRADERS’ TOKENS. | [69] |
| GREEK AND ROMAN COINS. | [99] |
| I. GREEK COINS. | [100] |
| II. ROMAN COINS. | [121] |
| [Transcriber’s notes:] |
COINS OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS.
It is not possible to say, with any degree of certainty, at what precise period our ancient British forefathers acquired a knowledge of the art of coining, or into what part of our island that art was first introduced. The probability, however, amounting almost to a certainty, is that the use of money and, consequently, the art of making it, was introduced into Britain from Gaul; and the Kentish coast being the nearest to that country, and receiving friendly and bartering incursions from the Belgic tribes, with whom, doubtless, the natives traded, the natural assumption is that money was known to, and its use appreciated by, the inhabitants of that county long before those of the inland and more northern parts of the island had any knowledge of such a medium as a substitute for ordinary product-barter. Kent may therefore, I apprehend, be looked upon as the district in which money made its first appearance in our country; and, probably, where also it was first made by our Celtic progenitors.
