'[Discusses 5 ancient British coins] The first is undoubtedly one of those pieces wch gave occasion to the counterfeiting so many coins (as are now to be met wth in our English musaea) usually ascribed to K. Cunobeline. I have a good while had a fancy (which my Friend Mr Lhwyd has taken a good deal of fruitless pains to remove) that none of our old Brittish Kings coin’d any money; at least with their own Image & Supersciption. Wht then, will you say, becomes of the Several Kinds wch are said so fairly to bear the name of this Cunobeline? Most of them are visibly Counterfeits. I sd think he would rather have chosen, if the matter had been of his own ordering, to have had his name spell’d (according to the orthography of his Native Country) Kynvelyn, then in compliment to his Roman Education Cunobeline....
... not Current money, but that they are some of the Amulets used by almost all Pagan nations. ... I cannot give you so good an Account of the Saxon pieces as you expect (5 of them) ...'
(Gloucestershire Archives, D3549/6/5/5, Burnett 2020b, pp. 1505, 1554)