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sumed likewise to have coined money in that capital, with a Punic inscription on 

 it. Nor can this well be denied, as medals of Cosyra, or Cossura, denominated 

 by the moderns Pantallaria, adorned with such an inscription, sometimes occur ; 

 though that island, whatever figure it might have made when possessed by the 

 Carthaginians, was considerably smaller than gavlos, known at present by the 

 name of Gozo, the place probably where the piece was struck, though the time 

 when cannot now be ascertained. 



XKXVII. Elucidation of an Etruscan Coin of P^stum, in Lucania, emitted 

 from the Mint there, about the Time of the Social PVar. By the Rev. John 

 Swinton, B. D., F. R. S. p. 246. 



This c^in, adorned with Etruscan characters, was some years since commu- 

 nicated to the world by Sig. Passeri ; and ascribed to the city of Paestum, in Lu- 

 cania, of which such noble ruins are still extant, by that ingenious author. 

 This notion, on farther examination, will be found by no means remote from 

 truth. The head, with curled hair, which is on one side of this curious minute 

 coin, may not improbably, as Sig. Passeri believes, be the effigies of some 

 famous hero, or general, if not the founder of a city, that anciently bore a rela- 

 tion to the place where the piece was atruck ; or it may possibly, as the same 

 learned gentleman also suggests, be allowed to point out to us some local deity. 

 Two of the symbols on the reverse undoubtedly represent a dolphin and an 

 acrostolium, though what that between these two was intended to point out to 

 us, Mr. S. cannot, with the same facility, take upon him to decide. Hence, and 

 from the elements on the reverse, Mr. S. reads it zivvtzis, phistvvis ; which, 

 according to the cacography, or uncouth manner of writing, of the Etruscans, 

 may, with sufficient propriety, be deemed equivalent to the Latin PjEstvm. 



XXXVIII. Remarks on a Denarius of the Feturian Family, tvith an Etruscan 

 Inscription on the Reverse, never before published. By the Rev. John Swin- 

 ton, B. D., F. R. S. p. 253. 



This piece is a Samnite-Etruscan denarius, brought some years since by a 

 gentleman of this university from Rome, resembling one of the Veturian 

 fkmily, formerly explained by Mr. S. in every particular but the legend or in- 

 scription, on the reverse, and the letter in the exergue ; the elements in which 

 he considers as equivalent to the Romans Lvpo, and part of the name 



LVPONIUS. 



The Lucanian forces acted under the orders of M. Lamponius and Tiberius 

 Cleptius, two generals of very considerable note, in the social war. The former 

 of these, according to Appian, distinguished himself by the defeat of a body of 

 Roman troops, under the command of Licinius Crassus, and the siege of Gru- 



