Not a coin but related. I lived, for a while, in a Victorian terraced house off
Severus Street in Acomb, York. It is the reputed approximate location, down from Holgate
Hill, for the funeral pyre of
Septimius Severus who died in York in AD211. The former HSBC bank at the end of the street closed to become a tile shop but there is a fabulous reproduction
bust of
Severus in the courtyard.
Rev Francis Thackeray: ‘Researches into the Ecclesiastical and Political State of Ancient
Britain’ . He wrote that
Severus died at York in AD211 and
his ‘body was carried forth by the soldiers to the funeral pyre, kindled in a place westward of the city, where is a large
hill of earth which according to Camden, Radulphus Niger says was called in
his time, Siver’s
Hill from
Severus.
His ashes, deposited in an
urn of porphyry, were conveyed to
Rome and placed in the sepulchre of the Antonines’
If he isn't referring to Holgate
Hill the other most likely site to the
west of York is the
hill in Acomb where St Stephen's
Church is now located.
Regards,
Mauseus