| Description | 3,000 copper or brass coins, contained within an iron pot. Found by a labouring man in Pudsey, probably in 1908. Find spot unknown; grid ref. centred on Bramley. The iron pot was broken and the pieces lost. The man reburied 200 of the coins, in a plant pot saucer, in the quarry south of Bramley at SE 2390 3303, where they were found in 1909 by a group of boys. This smaller assemblage included coins of Gallienus, Victorinus, Tetricus, Claudius II Gothicus and Probus (A.D. 253 282.)
120 coins, presumably from the secondary group, are in Leeds City Museum. These coins include issues of Valerian, Gallienus, Salonina, Claudius II Gothicus, Quintillus, Aurelian, Tacitus and Probus (A.D. 253 282) as well as issues of Postumus, Marius, Victorinus, and the Tetrici (A.D. 259 273.) The present location of the remainder of the original hoard of 3,000 is unknown. Some may be in the possession of the University of Leeds, others probably formed part of the estate of James Verity of Earlsheaton, a numismatist, who died in 1910; 100 of the Leeds City Museum coins are from his collection. There is a possibility that a group of coins in Wakefield Museum (PRN 1780) found in 1909 and labeled as being from the find at Haugh End, Stanningley (which is the area of the secondary find of 200 coins) may also be part of this hoard. |