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Druim Jonajglan, the place of his refidence. Thus we have 

 probably obtained the period in which all thefe coins were ftruck, 

 that is, between the years 862 and 870, for they are all evidently 

 not only the work of one age, but of the fame perfon, and 

 may have been coined by Eiinius Rubher at Argiodrofs, if we fup- 

 pofe the period mentioned for that tninfadion to be by Keating 

 and other Irifh hiftorians thrown too far back, as anachronifms 

 are but too frequent in remote matters. Ennius Rubher or Aongus 

 Ruffer is evidently a Danifli name ; and Fionnliath being for fome 

 time in friendfliip with the Danes, might have obtained an 

 artificer to inftrud his people in the art of coinage. But be this 

 as it may, the infcriptions, from their orthography, were evidently 

 compofed by fome foreigner, and the Runic letters found in them 

 are of the middle alphabets, that is, thofe found on the Teutonic 

 monuments of the ninth and tenth centuries, fuch as thofe in the 

 Ifle of Man, &c. 



No. X. 



On the obverfe, round the head, is the following infcription 

 PLATE I. in Runic and Ogham charaders : 

 No 10. m e a 1 o c 1 o oi n c a o 1 m o a gh 



Or, 

 Mealochin Caolmoagh^ for Melochlin Ca'elmen. 



On the reverfe, two hands in the oppofite quarters of the crofs, 

 PLATE L with the following words : 



No 10 alolreaghllalalae 



Or, 



