Claudius was found in the sewerage-cutting at the top of King's Street, about the year 1851. On the obverse it has the head of the emperor looking to the left, with the inscription, TI. CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG. TRP. IMP., and on the reverse, Minerva to the right, poising a spear; inscription in the field, s. c. A first brass of Commodus was found, as said, four feet from the surface in All Saints' churchyard in 1844, and is engraved in the 'History of the College of Maidstone,' p. 137, as also

First brass of Commodus

here represented. A rather well preserved denarius of the Emperor Trajan is similarly said to have been found in the bed of the river Lenn, about twenty-five years ago. The two last form part of the late Mr. Charles's Museum, now belonging to the town of Maidstone. A third brass of Constans, with the delineation of the Labarum, was found at the top of Stone Street, on the lefthand, on what was formerly called "Sayer's Land." A Roman consular coin, of the family of Accoleia, was found in. the present year in one of the gardens of Medway Street, inscribed with the legend, P. ACCOLEIVS LARISCOLVS. Likewise about the same time a denarius of the Emperor Julian was found in or about Maidstone, inscribed on the obverse, FL. CL. IVLIANVS PP. AVG.; on the reverse, VICTORIA. DD. NN. AVG. ; and in the exergue, LVG. The coin is in very good preservation. Of other objects, a statuette of Mercury was found thirty years since in Mr. Lamprey's grounds, on the Boxley road, about a quarter of a mile out of Maidstone, now in possession