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 f *16 *: THE H I fc"! 4 6 R Y - 'Book*L -beline furviyed the futye&ion of his kingdoinV lie could h6t • have retained the power of the mint; thai liberty bding cbik- ikntly taken away by the Romans, the right of coining being . exercifed only by themfelves, and the coins being -all infcribdd . wth the names of the Roman emperors **,
 * But the mint, at Camulodunum was not the onty one which

Cunobeline ere&ed. He fet up three others in three other towAs x>f his dominions ' And Cara&acus, pr (as he is more properly called by Richard and the Triades) Charaticus and Caradauc fo defervedly famous afterwards for his gallant oppofition to tBe Roman army and his more gaifcmt behaviour to the victorious ijitoperor, one of the fops, of Cunobeline, and his fucceflbr in . the fpvereignty of the Caffii and Trinovantes, adopted the fame {cheme and employed the fame mint-mafter ". But in all pro* ^ability he coined only a few pieces, his own kingdom beirig ibon reduced by the Romans, and himfelf taking refuge with • the Silures and the Brigantes, And we have only one of his coins at pjefent. But the art of coining could not long remain confined withfrv the prpcinfts of the Caffii and the Trinovantes. And maiiy . foins which have been difcovered in the ifland evince that it did not Thefe carry no appearances upon them that can induce us to attribute them to any other than the primaeval Britons. Thefe carry a remarkable and ftriking fimilarity to the coins 6f Cunobeline. The wheel, the horfe, the crefcent, and the boar, £o frequently the devices upon the latter, appear as. frequently upon the former X9 . Even the name of Tafcia, which occurs fo often on the coins of Cunobeline, the appellation of the mint- matter in all probability whom Cunobeline originally invited into the ifland, appears equally infcribed upon fome of thefe **. And* as many of them have been found in the mittft of undoubtedly Britifh monuments *% fo feveral of them exhibit even the Britifh. chariot, very evidently pourtrayed upon them * Being difcovered twithigt. the ifland, and beariag in their appearances no relation. IP my Qther country, the fuggeftion& of good-ifenfe and the proprieties of r^afonipg would have obliged us to refer them 4a. th* J