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carried to the mint at CarJsbourg, whence they were sent to 

 the loyal treasury at Hermanstadt, the capital ct Transyl- 

 vania,' and to Vienna. To judge from the impression, these 

 medals were struck in the lime of Lysimachus. Their in- 

 trir.sic value is about 2800 florins (30ul. sterling). A con- 

 siderable number of similar medals have been found at dif- 

 ferent times in Transylvania ; so that this new discovery 

 cannot be consid'jred as a direct increast-of our neumisniatic 

 knowledge, if we except two medals of king Piiarmaceo and 

 his general, Asander. 



The treasury of Ilernianstadt has received intelligence, 

 also, that evident traces and the ruins of a town, very con- 

 siderable by its extent, have been discovered in the mountain 

 of Gredistye, in the same county *. fn the same lieigh- 

 bourhood; and particularly the mountain Gattano, some 

 WalLichian priests have found several antique medals of gold, 

 about four hundred of which have already been sent to the 

 treasury at Hermanstadtj each of them is equal in weight to 

 about two ducats and a quarter; — the price for which they 

 have been purchased by the treasury from those who found 

 them, is 4,^17 florins (about 430l.)- All these medals are in 

 fine preparation ; on one side they exhibit the figures of 

 three men, the first and third of whom bear axes; at the 

 bottom is the word KOSUN; on the reverse is seen an eagle, 

 holding in its right claw a croun. In the catalogue of the 

 cabinet of V^iennaf, Eckhel ascribes this emblem to the 

 town of Coix, in Etruria, as Tristan Patin Havercamp and 

 other antiquaries had done before; on the other hand, m his 

 Doctrina Num<>nnn\ : he shows that these medals ought to 

 be ascribed to Marcus Junius Brutus. 



A letter from Rome says : " This city is engaged with 

 the greatest activity in repairing its losses. Thepupe neg- 

 lects nothing that can improve or encourage the arts. 

 People arc employed in digging around the triumphal arch 

 of SeveriH, which' is alnio3t""hali buried. Fifty galley slaves, 

 brought from Civita-V'ecehia, are engaged in this under- 

 lakiug. The same labour has been several times undertaken 

 in the course vA the last three centuries, but the places 

 where these researches were made had always been again 



• No inscri])tions capable of L'iv'Pg further iiv'ormation have yet been 

 found ; a brick with the letters I'EliS co Kilo only t.as been dug uji. 



t Vol. i, p. 14. 



* Vol. i. p. 90, and vol. vi. p. 13, ct. scij. 



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