English Coins and Tokens, with a Chapter on Greek and Roman CoinsJewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
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English Coins and Tokens, with a Chapter on Greek and Roman Coins
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
Coins, British; Numismatics -- Great Britain; Tokens -- Great Britain
CANTII, Kent, which in Cæsar’s time was divided among four chiefs or
kings.
CASSI, Hertfordshire.
CATYEUCHLANI, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Hertfordshire.
CŒNIMAGNI, Suffolk.
CORITANI, or CORITAVI, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire,
Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Rutland.
CORNABII, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Shropshire,
Cheshire, and part of Flintshire.
DUMNONII, or DAMNONII, Cornwall and Devonshire.
DEMETÆ, Caermarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire.
DOBUNI, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
DUROTRIGES, Dorsetshire.
GADENI, Cumberland and part of Northumberland; and Selkirk, and
adjacent portions of Scotland.
HEDUI, Somersetshire.
ICENI, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire.
JUGANTES, coast of the Irish Sea.
MORINI, Dorsetshire.
ORDOVICES, Flint, Denbigh, Montgomery, Merioneth, Caernarvon, and
Anglesea.
OTADINI, the land from the Tyne to the Forth. PARISII, the south-east
of Yorkshire.
REGNI, Surrey and Sussex.
REMI, supposed to be identical with the Bibroci.
SEGONTIACI, the greater part of Hampshire, and Berkshire.
SENONES, a portion of Hampshire.
SESTUNTII, Westmoreland and Cumberland.
SILURES, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire, and
Glamorganshire.
TRINOBANTES, Middlesex and Essex.
VOLUNTII, Lancashire.
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I now proceed to enumerate some of the inscribed coins referred to
under the geographical arrangement already given.
BODVOC.
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Coins bearing the word BODVOC, BODVO, or ODVOC, have usually, but
erroneously, been ascribed to Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni. As is
remarked by Evans, “there is no ground for supposing that any coins
were struck by Boadicea, who never seems to have exercised the queenly
power, unless as the leader of a short-lived revolt, and whose chief
complaint against the Romans was, that the kingdom left by her husband
Prasutagus, to which possibly she may have hoped to succeed, was
overrun and pillaged by their troops, she herself scourged, and her
daughters put to shame.” Moreover, no coins of BODVOC have ever been
found in the Icenian territory, but are confined to the opposite side
of the country; and are evidently of a date anterior to the revolt of
Boadicea. The usual type has on the _obverse_ simply the word BODVOC
in large letters across the field; _reverse_, a horse of more or less
disjointed character, with chariot-wheel and other details. One example
has, however, on the _obverse_ a profile bust to the left, and letters
BODVO in front of the face; and _reverse_, a horse, etc.
CATTI.
A convex coin. _Obverse_, an object which may be described as
a branch, or a spike of flowers; _reverse_, a disjointed horse,
chariot-wheel, etc., and the letters CATTI.
COMVX.
Much the same as the last, with the letters, on _reverse_, COMVX.
VO-CORIO.
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