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Itinerarium curiosum (centuria I)

Note 101 — ITER ROMANUM. V. (continued 2)

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Near Bensford bridge and Lutterworth, a vast quantity of silver Roman coins found anno 1725, now in possession of Mr. Walter Reynolds, steward to lord Denbygh of Lutterworth. I saw many of Trajan, Hadrian, Nerva, Vespasian, two large brass Trajans. Feb. 9. 1726, I saw the following in silver.

Vespasianus Aug. reverse, Judæa. A prisoner under a trophy

———————— pon. max. tr. p. cos. v. A caduceus.

Vesp. Aug. imp. Cæsar pontif. maxim. A caduceus.

Imp. Cæs. Vesp. Aug. Cen. pontif. max sedens cum hasta in dex. flore in læva

Vespasianus Cæsar a sow and three pigs. imp. iii.

Imp. Cæs. Ner. Trajan optm. Aug. Ger. &c. rev. p. m. tr. p. cos. S. p. q. r. A genius of plenty

Imp. Cæs. Nerva Trajan Aug. Germ. pont. max. tr. pot. cos. ii. Genius sedens

Imp. Cæs. Nerva Trajan Aug. Germ. p. m. tr. p. cos. iiii. p. f. A genius of plenty

Imp. Cæs. Trajan p. m. tr. p. cos. ii. justitia. Genius sedens

Trajano Aug. Ger. Dac. S. p. q. r. opt. principi. Genius of plenty.

Imp. Trajano Aug. Ger. Dac. p. m. tr. p. cos. v. p. p. s. p. q. r. opt. princ. Genius cum pavone

Trajano Aug. Ger. Dac. p. m. tr. p. cos. ii. p. p. S. p. q. r. optimo principi. Mars gradivus

Imp. Trajano Aug. Ger. Dac. p. m. tr. p. cos. v. p. p. S. p. q. r. optimo principi. Genius sacrificans

Imp. Trajano Aug. Ger. Dac. p. m. tr. p. cos. vi. p. p. S. p. q. r. optimo principi. Columna Trajana

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Imp. Trajano Aug. Ger. Dac. p. m. tr. p. cos. v. p. p. S. p. q. r. optimo principi. Genius cum bilance

Imp. Trajano Aug. Ger. Dac. p. m. tr. p. cos. vi. p. p. S. p. q. r. optimo principi. Genius cum puero

Imp. Trajano Aug. Ger Dac. p. m. tr. p. cos. vi. p. p. s. p. q. r. opt pr. Vesta sed. cum victoriola

Imp. Trajano Aug. Ger. Dac. p. m. tr. p. cos. v. p. p. s. p. q. r. opt. pr. Genius stans cum prora

Imp. Cæsar Trajan Hadrianus Aug. p. m. tr. p. cos. iii. Genius cum caduceo

Imp. Cæsar Trajan Hadrianus Aug. p. m. tr. p. cos. iii. A female in the posture of imploring

Hadrianus Aug. cos. m. p. p. salus Aug. Hygeia

Hadrianus Augustus cos. iii. Genius armatus sedens

Imp. Cæsar Trajan Hadrianus Aug. p. m. tr. p. cos. iii. a genius with two bustos in her hands

Hadrianus Aug. cos. iii. p. p. Africa Genia Nili procumbens

Imp. Cæsar Trajan Hadrianus Aug. p. m. tr. p. cos. iii. Genius sedens sacrificans

Imp. Cæsar Trajan Hadrianus Aug. p. m. tr. p. cos. Fortuna sedens cum prora

Imp. Cæsar Trajan Hadrianus Aug. p. m. tr. p. cos. iii. Genius nudus sacrificans

Hadrianus Augustus cos. iii. Hercules sedens cum victoriola

————————— ————Victoria sedens

Imp. Cæsar Trajan Hadrianus Aug. p. m. tr. p. cos. iii. Fortuna stans

Hadrianus Aug. cos. iii. p. p. moneta Aug. Genius cum bilance

Imp. Cæsar Trajan Hadrianus Aug. p. m. tr. p. cos. iii. salus. Hygeia sedens

———————————————————— —————Genius nudus sacrificans

Antoninus Augustus p. p. reverse, cos. pulvinar cum fulmine

ælius Cæsar tr. pot. cos. ii. Concord. victoria sedens

Faustina Vesta pulvinar

Sabina Augusta Concordia Aug. genia stans cum patera

These being all of the higher empire, and many excellently well cut, indicate that they were hid early, and perhaps about this time, that the Watling-street was made: they were found in a hole in the fields between Loughborow and the Watling-street, with about a dozen more than here described.

Wickliff lived at Lutterworth, his picture in the parsonage. Mr. Button of Kimcote, near here, a curious man. Wickliff’s pulpit still left. A petrifying spring at Lutterworth.

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