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An Account ^ANTIENT COINS, fomid at BALLYLINAM 

 in the QUEEN'S COUNTY, IRELAND; ■with Conjeaures 

 thereon. In a Letter to JOSEPH COOPER WALKER, 

 M. JR. I. A. and Honorary Member of the Etrufcan Academy 

 of Cortona. From WILLIAM BEAUFORD, A. M. 

 Soc. Antiq. Scot. 



Athy, Februart i6, 1787. 

 S I R, 



X N June, 1786, fome peafants dug up in a field in the Read Feb, 

 Queen's County, near Ballylinam (about four miles from Athy) '^' '^^7- 

 an earthen urn, containing a great number of fmall filver 

 coins, which they immediately diftributed among themfelves, and 

 fold to different people. Several of thefe coins were purchafed 

 by the Rev. Mr. Afhe of this town, and by him prefented to the 

 Mufeum of Trinity College, Dublin ; they were afterwards fub- 

 mitted to the infpedion of the Royal Irifh Academy. 



As thefe coins fhew evident marks of high antiquity, and in 



feveral particulars differ from thofe difcovered in Britain and on 



the continent, I have endeavoured to explain twelve of them, 



(S 2) and 



