'Mr. Lhwyd attacks me vigorously, as you do, in defence of the old British coins; and I can hardly hope long to maintain my post against two such powerful assailants. If I could ever see any of those pieces which are reported to have been coined by K. Lucius, I might be the better enabled to give my opinion of them. But for the present, I can only tell you, that as I am under violent temptations to believe that Juno has a right to most of the venerable remains of Cunobeline, so some other Pagan deity will bid fair for those of good King Lucius: if they are such as have undeniable marks of age upon them. What Mr. Lhwyd mostly insists on is Caesar’s authority in his Commentaries, lib. 5. “Utuntur autem nummo aereo, &c.” To which I have, by this post, returned the following answer: “We are not sure that this passage is truly genuine. Lipsius complains of a great many interpolations in that tract; insomuch, that he can hardly allow one sound piece in it. And Mr. Selden particularly assures us that, in this place, some manuscripts had laminis instead of annulis. If that be the true reading, their lumps of iron may prove as shapeless as I guess their brass to have been. Both metals they undoubtedly gave in exchange for other commodities: and it is not unlikely but Caesar might be a little too careless here in expressing their methods in bartering and traffic. ...”'
(Hunter 1832, vol. 1 p. 262; Burnett 2020b, p. 1553)
