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The figures on our medal being mofl afTuredly Spanifh, 

 Englifh or Irifli, and not Arabian*, Perlian or Indianf, it is 

 probable this talifman was ftruck by the Saracens of Spain, at 

 the requeft of fome European, who engaged them to put the date 

 of the year in European figures. From the great intercourfe be- 

 tween this country and Spain, mkny of the talifmans might 

 have gained admittance into Ireland, and on that account they 

 are worthy of explanation. 



In the book of Ballymote, among the Oghams, I find a 

 perfe(5l Perfian talifman of the feven planets. If the ancient Irifli 

 or Hiberno-Scythians had thefe in common with the Orientalifts, 

 why might they not have been induced to ftrike a medal alfo ? 



The quotations from the Arabian author may be feen at large 

 in the original language in Kircher's Oedipus -Sgyptiacus, tom. 

 II. part I. p. 399. Cap. Cabala Saracenica. 



C. VALLANCEY. 



* Thefe numerals in Arabian charaders would be thus ///\V. 



f See No. XII. of my ColleBanea de Rebus Hibernicis, plate II. which fliews the 

 Indian, Arabian and European numerals in one tabk. 



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