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perverse ingenuity, additional darkness has been thrown upon 
the obscure subject of Ogham writing. 
Mr. Beauford contributed to the first volume of the Tran- 
sactions of the Academy a paper in which he describes twelve 
coins, on which he thinks he finds legends, in Ogham, Roman, 
and Runic characters intermixed ; and he gives readings of 
these, exhibiting various Irish names of persons and places.* 
Any person, the least conversant with numismatics, will at once 
recognise these coins’as being all of them Hiberno-Danish. 
By the kindness of Dr. Aquilla Smith, Mr. Graves was enabled 
to exhibit to the Academy one of the actual coins figured by 
Mr. Beauford, viz., that marked No. 7 in the plate illustrating 
his paper. 
This coin, now in Dr. Smith’s collection, is appropriated 
by Mr. Lindsay, who has studied this class of coins with most 
attention, to Sihtric IV., King of Dublin, A. D. 1034. It 
may, however, belong to Sihtric III., A. D. 989. 
Mr. Beauford’s description of the coin is as follows :— 
** Round the head, on the obverse, is the following inscription 
in Latin, Runic, and Ogham Croabh characters : 
u mearec readon 
or, 
U mearc re a don, for O More Re I dun. 
4 On the reverse, in one of the quarters of the cross, is a hand, with 
_ the following inscription in Latin, Runic, and Ogham Croabh cha- 
racters : 
mac ghealach ofutla 
or, 
Mae Ghealach O Futla, for Magh Ghealach O Fodhla.” 
Subjoined is a figure of the coin in question, executed from 
* Still more absurd misrepresentations respecting Ogham characters and 
__ writing may be seen in a paper by the same author, called Druidism Revived, 
which is inserted in the second volume of Vallancey’s Collectanea. 
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