"Constantine the Great reigned from 306 to 337. He was the son of Constantius Chlorus, and was with him at Eboracum at the time of his death, and there assumed the purple. His son, Constantius II., or Junior, was named Caesar by his father in 317, and died in 340. There is no proper criterion by which to distinguish the coins of these two emperors. Of the 208 coins of Constantine in my collection there are about 30 varieties. "Maximinus II. reigned from 305 to 313; Maxentius from 306 to 312; and Licinius from 307 to 324. "It is probable that all, or almost all, the 342 coins of this collection were minted during the first quarter of the 4th century--in fact, during the ten years between A.D. 305 and 315." ON EARLY IMPORTED COINS AND THEIR VALUES. In preceding "General Observations on Coinages for the Channel Islands," I have noted that from the time of the Romans the currency continued to be by _introduced_ or _foreign_ coins. Naturally enough, the islanders would have only to do with coins which would be accepted by those on the neighbouring mainland with whom they had commercial transactions. There was not sufficient interior traffic to make requisite any local coinage of their own. It would be uninteresting and of no practical utility to treat in detail of coins thus imported for temporary and outside, as well as home, convenience and necessity, but I will now give notes and extracts which will, I believe, clearly indicate the nature of currency arrangements which obtained from the days of the early kings of England. I am indebted to Le Quesne's "History of Jersey"[E] for interesting information recorded of the coinages and currency of that island, and to the Rev. G. E. Lee for the Guernsey records. The original states documents from which these particulars were collated are still preserved. The denominations of coins officially in use at various periods appear thereby. [E] "A Constitutional History of Jersey." By Charles Le Quesne. Published by Longmans and Co., London, 1856. "An order of King John, dated 25th March, 1208, directs the Exchequer to reckon to the bailiffs of Southampton _twenty sols_ which they paid for a ship in which Stephen de Oxford sailed to Guernsey and Jersey by order of the king."--_Le Quesne_, page 476. "Orders from the English Crown in the early part of the 13th century specified coins as follows for payment in Jersey:--An order from King John of the 11th of November, 1212, directed that the Treasury should pay to Philip d'Albigny, going to the island of Jersey, of which Hasculfus de Soligny was governor, 40 marks for fortifying the island."--_Le Quesne_, page 476.