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Rh coin of the Emperor Volusianus, having on the obverse the head of the Emperor, with a radiated crown, and this inscription, ''Imp. Cæs. C. Vib. Volusiano Aug''. that is Imperatori Cæsari Caio Vibio Volusiano Augusto. On the reverse an human figure, with the arms somewhat extended, and at the right foot an altar, with the inscription, Pietas. This Emperor was son unto Caius Vibius Tribonianus Gallus, with whom he jointly reigned after the Decii, about the year 254; both he himself, and his father, were slain by the Emperor Æmilianus. By the radiated crown this piece should be coined after his death and consecration, but in whose time it is not clear in history. But probably this ground had been opened and digged before, though out of the memory of man, for we found divers small pieces of pots, sheep's bones, sometimes an oyster-shell a yard deep in the earth.