'But I think a greater curiosity is in finding a treasure of Saxon coins; they were discovered in digging a cellar, but not a yard deep in the ground, wrapped up in a bag, in building a new house in Konyng-street. There were above 100 silver coins, all very fresh and fair; and a large lump of the small brass coins called Sticas, so stuck together by erugo that very few could be separated. Both silver and brass were all coins of the Heptarchy. The latter, I think, were particular to our Northumbrian kingdom. Amongst the silver coins are a few with this inscription, LOTHARIVS REX, without a head; on the reverse, a fair portico to a Roman temple, superscribed CHRISTIANA RELIGIO. Now this Lotharius, I find by Dr Hicks’s Saxon Tables, was King of Kent about the year 670, at a time when some of the Roman temples were yet standing in this island, which the Saxon Christians, like those at Rome, converted to their own worship; and to sanctify it the more, stamped it on their coins. But this I leave to your better judgment; and if you have a mind to see an Icon or two of this coin, I will send it to you...' (Lukis 1882-1887, vol. 3, pp. 360-1; Burnett 2020b, p. 741)
