Note 445 — Chapter XXV
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In 1802 a pot of Roman coins was dug up near Dharaparum, in Coimbatore, of the Emperors Augustus and Tiberius, with Cæsarea marked on them, the place where they were struck. Buchanan's Travels, ii. p. 318.
One coin, a Roman aureus, has been found in a cairn on the Neilgherry hills.—Captain H. Congreve's Antiquities of the Neilgherry Hills.