14. R. Same Prince. [Isba]han, A.. 414. b هان سنة,margin : رضا As 13 : but above instead of قل هو .and above rev أربع عشرة واربع مائة ; 15. R. Same Prince. Sabur-Khawast, A.. 414. to بسابور (sic) خواست سنة اربع عشر (sic) واربع ما Margin 16. R. Feramerz, son of the above. Mint obliterated. A.H. 41x. Obv. area as 13: but above, and traces of title of . محمد بن دشمنزار Feramerz instead of . عشرة واربع مائة Margin Rev. as 13 but above area, and beneath so . دشمنزار محمد بن STANLEY LANE-POOLE. BIRLING, EAST DEAN, EASTBOURNE. Nov. 1887. 340 MISCELLANEA. TREASURE TROVE FROM DENBY, NEAR BARNSLEY, YORKSHIRE.The following is a rough list of fifty-one silver coins recently discovered at Denby, not far from Barnsley, in the West Riding. As will be seen, the deposit must have been made not very long after the year 1641. Denby lies among the hills in the south-west angle of Yorkshire, and must, in the days at which these coins were deposited, have been a wild and little inhabited region. This would account for the very poor condition in which some of the coins were, some of the older of them being barely decipherable. It would also make it more natural that the hoard should contain coins extending over a considerable period, from before 1558 (Philip and Mary) to 1641. In 1642 and 1643 there was more activity in the Civil War in Yorkshire, where the Royal army, under the Marquis of Newcastle, was opposed by Fairfax, than in other parts of England, save in the south-west. In May, 1643, Fairfax defeated Lord Newcastle at Wakefield, which is not more than fifteen miles from Denby. It is easy, therefore, to surmise the circumstances in which this deposit was made. The latest m.m. on any piece is the triangle in circle (A.D. 1641). The coins were all in extremely poor condition and contained, so far as could be seen, no rarities. CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ON THE SHORT CROSS QUESTION.-Page after page of this Chronicle has been devoted to the above subject, and the able pens of Mr. Longstaffe, Dr. Evans, Sir Henry Ellis, and Mr. Kenyon have proved to the satisfaction, I should think, of all numismatists that the short cross issue of Henry II., bearing the legend HENRICVS REX, was continued by Richard I. and John. Nevertheless, if any doubt remains, the following passage, translated from the second continuation of the Chronicles of Florence of Worcester, which has, I believe, escaped the research of the above writers, must set it at rest : 1 "A.D. 1205. The money issued long before in the year eleven hundred and fifty-eight was this recoined.". year The year 1205 was the sixth of the reign of John, and 1158 the fourth of that of Henry II. This continuation of the Chronicles of Florence of Worcester was written by John de Taxter, a monk of Bury St. Edmunds, who died about 1265. It is, therefore, highly satisfactory that so important and ingenious a theory of our modern numismatists should be thus clearly proved by the evidence of a contemporary writer to be correct. I came across the passage while searching for historical notes on the coinage of the reign of Stephen, a work in which I have for some time been engaged, and take this opportunity of mentioning that I shall be much obliged to any collector who will furnish me with careful readings of coins of that period. WALTER J. ANDREW. Moss SIDE, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, UNPUBLISHED CANTERBURY PENNY OF HENRY VIII.-This coin is not to be found in Hawkins' Silver Coins of England (third edition), and therefore a description of it may not be out of place in the Chronicle. The general type is that of the second coinage as arranged by Hawkins, the legend on the obverse running h. + D. + G ROSA + SI¤ + SPIA. The mint mark is T, hitherto, I believe, unnoticed on pennies of this reign. The reverse differs, again, from Hawkins in being of Archbishop Wareham's mint at Canterbury, which city is not mentioned as issuing pennies of the second coinage. HENRY SYMONDS. 1 Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis. Thorpe, 1848. Tom. ii. 166. VOL. VII. THIRD SERIES. Y Y UNPUBLISHED GOLD COINS OF JAMES I. Mr. Kenyon's recent work on the Gold Coins of England, being a first attempt at anything like a systematic history of the gold coinage of this country, he has necessarily omitted therein a very large number of varieties; and a long list of omitted mint marks during the various reigns might be furnished. I will content myself for the present by calling attention to such gold coins of the reign of James I. as are not recorded by the author, and most of which I exhibit with this note to the Society. The list of such omissions are as follows:: With regard to the thistle crown, the author states that coins of that denomination do not seem to have been struck after 1611, when the addition to their value made them extremely inconvenient for reckoning. As will be seen by the list above, they were coined in 1612, 1613, and 1615, which are the dates respectively of the mint marks tower, cinquefoil, and tun. It should be noted that the thistle crowns with the two last-mentioned mint marks differ from the others in the omission of the letters I R on the obverse, and in the smaller size of the lettering and other differences of workmanship. One thistle crown is in my possession on which the mint mark has been said to be that of the book, but the piece is somewhat worn, and the mint mark so indistinct that there may be some doubt as to this, particularly as the letters I R on the obverse are not omitted, although, on the other hand, the crown surmounting the thistle on the reverse is of the later broad and flat form, as on the pieces with the mint marks cinquefoil and tun. I have seen and handled all the coins mentioned, and in addition to these, a large number of various pieces of the same reign which vary in legends or otherwise from those recorded by Mr. Kenyon. I have upon the present occasion referred simply to the omitted mint marks, and upon consideration of these and of those which are recorded, it would appear to me that the following pieces or most of them should be in existence, although I have hitherto failed to meet with any of them, viz. : I shall be glad to have a note of any of the above that may come under the notice of the members of this Society. I have referred to the m.m. book by that name, and in that respect have followed Mr. Kenyon, but I cannot help thinking that the mint mark in question is really the heraldic billet, one of the marks of difference employed in early but not in later times, particularly as we have as mint marks on the coins of this period most of the other marks of heraldic difference or cadency, namely, the crescent, mullet, martlet, annulet, fleur-de-lys, and rose. I have never seen or heard of the mint mark saltire cross as occurring on the coins of James I., although Mr. Kenyon |