The Roman Mint And Early Britain

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The Roman Mint And Early Britain
William Sharp Ogden
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Rawlinson in his History of Phoenicia, referring to their over-seas trade, says : " Outside the Pillars of Hercules, the Phoenicians had only savage nations to deal with, and with these they seem to have traded mainly for the purpose of obtaining certain natural products, either peculiarly valuable, or scarcely obtainable elsewhere. Their trade with the Scilly Islands and the coast of Cornwall was especially for the procuring of tin. Of all the metals, tin is found in the fewest places, and tho
...ugh Spain seems to have yielded some anciently, yet it can only have been in small quantities, while there was an enormous demand for tin in all parts of the old world, since bronze was the material almost universally employed for arms, tools, implements and utensils of all kinds, while tin is the most important, though not the laregst element in bronze. From the time that the Phoenicians discovered the Scilly Islands the ' Tin Islands ' (Cassiterides) as they called them it is probable that the tin of the civilised world was almost wholly derived from this quarter.

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