¹ Mattingly, H. and Robinson, E. S. G.: The date of the Roman denarius: London, 1933.Google Scholar

² Bede's use of the words ‘aureum illud numisma’ in his account of the vision of Earcongota (Hist. Eccl. iii. 8) shows how western scholar's ideas of coin-nomenclature could be influenced by Byzantine terms: the story, and Bede's treatment of it, are purely Northumbrian, Douce noted the significance of this passage in his Remarks and Collections.

³ In the apparatus criticus the first word in the passage of Pliny under consideration is said to be corrected in B from aenarius to denarius: but the facsimile given by Bahrfeldt, (Die römische Goldmünzenprägung, p. 3)Google Scholar suggests that the alteration was made by the scribe at once: he wrote a, saw his error, and changed the letter to d with an upward stroke. The slip does not seem to have any significance beyond this.