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On Crystals of Cuprite and Cerussite resulting from the slow alteration of buried coins1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
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The coins referred to in this paper were received through Professor J. W. Judd, F.R.S., to whom they had been sent by Mr. George W. Shrubsole, F.G.S., Honorary Curator of the Museum belonging to the Chester Society of Natural Science.
According to Mr. Shrubsole the Roman coins of Chester are generally found in soil consisting more or less of disintegrated red sandstone and clay : the coins of the find now under consideration must have been buried for fifteen centuries, for such as have been deciphered belong to what is called the Roman Third Brass, and range from Philippus, A.D. 244, to Constantine, A.D. 887. Mr. Shrubsole further remarks that crystals are not found to result from the alteration of isolated coins ; when met with they line cavities between adjacent coins of a pile.
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- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 7 , Issue 35 , December 1887 , pp. 187 - 188
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1887
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These products of alteration were exhibited at the meeting on October 20th, 1885.
References
page 188 note 1 Société Mineralogique de France, 1883, Vol. VI. p. 175.
page 188 note 2 Observations sur la Physique, sur l'histoire naturelle et sur les Arts, par Gozier et Mongez, 1779, Vol. XIV. p. 155.
page 188 note 3 Histoire naturelle des Mineraux, 1785, Vol. III. p. 56.
page 188 note 4 Das Gebirge in Rheinland Westphalen, 1824, Vol. III. p. 231.
page 188 note 5 Schweigger's Journal für Chrmieimd Physik, 1825, Vol XLIII.p. 132. Breitlak's physische und lythologische Reisen durch Gampanien, 1802, p. 204.
page 188 note 6 Erdmann's Journal der Chemie, 1840, Vol. XIX. p. 118. Hautmmn's Beiträge zur metallurgtichtn Krystallkunde, 1850, p. 17. Leonhard, Hütten-Erzeugnisse, 1858, p. 365.