Many had letters on them, and these were mostly--CVNO.
"They are coins of the Welsh folk whom we conquered," said Wulfnoth.

"I have seen the like before.

They made them at Selsea, and we find many there on the shore after storms." Now I think that we had found the hiding place of the tribute money that should be sent to Rome when some ship came thence or from beyond the Channel to fetch it, or maybe it was some iron master's hoarded payment for the good Sussex iron that they smelted in these valleys in the Roman days.

More likely it was the first, for men would know that it had never been sent away.

None can tell how the places of these hoards are lost, but times of war have strange chances.