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Title: History of Verulam and St. Alban's: containing an historical account of the decline of Verulam and the origin of St. Alban's, and of the present state of the town, the abbey, and other churches, public buildings ..
Year: 1815 (1810s)
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Publisher: St. Albans, S. G. Shaw
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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an important British city, the seat of thePrinces of the Cassii, and, according to the evi-dence of the Roman historians, of greater antiquitythan even London itself. Camden mentions Britishcoins, which he supposes to have been struck here,from the letters VER on one side, and on Ihe re-verse, the word Tascia* surrounding a runninghorse. In Whites Table of British coins, (pu-blished in 1773,) is an engraving of a gold coin, * Camden, on the authority of Dr. Powel, contends, thatthe word Tascia signifies Tribute Moneys and that the coins onwhich it appears, were struck h^ the British Sovereigns, to paythe tribute imposed on them by the Romans 5 this opinion hasbeen refuted by Mr, Eegge, and other antiquaries. The formerexplains the term Tascia, as the name of the Monetariusj otMint-master, who, on a coin attributed to Cunobeline, is repre-sented as sitting at his work: this figure, however, Mr. Goughsupposes to be a Vulcan, and copied from the Phoenicians, 11,,/ Jh/.rf, C/.un-/, .■/
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2 HISTORY OP* that has also been referred to this city,*^ it havingoil one side the word VERO; the reverse ex-hibits several rude, and perliaps, inexplicablemarks, together witfra chariot wheel and a figurebearing a distant resemblance to a stork, thoughprobably intended for a horse, as appears fromcomparing it with other coins of the British period.fUnder the domination of the Romans, Verulamacquired the dignity and privileges of a MunicUplum, and this as early as the time of Aulus Plau-tius; a circumstance that strikingly intimates itsprevious consequence. Its advance to the peculiarhonors of a free city is, however, ascribed to its at-tachment to the Roman government, and to theessential aid furnished bv its inhabitants to theRoman arms. But the same causes by which itsprosperity had been augmented, contributed to itsfall, by inflaming the vengeance of the Britons as-sociated under Boadicea,J who, after the destruc- * Iegges Treatise on the Coins of Cunobeline. 1 See Coughs Camden,

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