The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

212 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

solar symbols, though strangely all reference to these “Cassi’’ coins is omitted by Evans in his monograph. Coins of this Catti-Cassi type, actually bearing the legends “ Catti’’ or “‘ Cas,’ are unfortunately very rare, as, being usually of gold, such coins have presumably been melted up by the finders to make jewellery, in order to escape the penalties incident to treasure trove, as remarked by Beale andothers. But other later coins of this same type bearing kings’ names and other legends (e.g., ““ Tascio,’”’ see later) are fairly numerous. They are found from Cornwall through Devon and Somerset and far up the Severn Valley to near Wroxeter. They are also found from Kent to Northumberland, and a few even in Scotland. They are most common, however, in the old home-kingdom of the later paramount Briton kings, who were at the time of Czesar represented by Cassi-vellaunus, namely, the Land of the Caty-euchlani or “ Catuellani,’ from the Thames to the Humber. Thus these early Briton coins are found in those regions where we have discovered the widespread evidence of ancient Catti rule surviving in the many ancient and pre-Roman Briton place-names, with prehistoric remains there. The absence of kings’ names upon the earlier Catti or Cas Briton coins seems to be explained by the fact that the early Briton kings were, like the early Phcenicians, members of a commonwealth of confederated Aryan city-states which presumably used the coms in common.

The current notion also that the Early Britons derived their coinage by imitating a stater of Philip II. of Macedonia (360-336 B.c.)? can no longer be maintained. Indeed, one of the chief advocates of this old theory was latterly forced to confess, on further observation, that the Macedonian stater could not be the so/e “ prototype’ from which the Early Briton kings modelled their coinage.*» But more than this, it must now be evident to the unbiased observer that the Early British coins, with their symbolism, exhibit nothing whatever Macedonian in their type. The horseman and

1A theory re-advocated by Evans (E.C.B., 24, etc.), and adopted by Rhys (R.C.B., XV, etc.), and by Rice Holmes (H.A.B., 248, etc.). ?E.C.B., Supplement, 424.