British Coins

A depiction of the obverse and reverse of two silver coins from the figures decorating the margins of Moll's map of Gloucestershire, sold separately and as Map 16 in his Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales. The illustration derives from figures 10 and 11 of Tabula II Nummi Britannici on Page 88 of William Camden's Britannia, Vol. I. Their notes state "10. The tenth is an head, and I think, foreign, and not British; most of those being without ornament, but this hath a crown or garland. And what if Dubno should be mistaken for Dumnorix, or some other prince unknown to us." and "11. The eleventh hath an head with a diadem of two rows of pearls; perhaps for some of the oriental Emperors and not unlikely of Constantine the Great, both for the goodness of the face, and his being one of the first who carried that sort of diadem. He may well be placed here, as being born of a British lady. The reverse is a dove hovering over a cross, an emblem not unusual in the first times of Christianity; intimating, that the cross is made beneficial unto us by the Holy Spirit. Masseius and Ossorius testify, that the Christians at their first coming to Meliapor (the city of

Date

1586

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

447 × 341 pixels

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