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'VIII. An Account of a Subcerated Denarius 

 of the Plastorian Family r , adorned with 

 an Etrufcan Infcription on the Reverfe y 

 mever before publijhed or explained. In 

 a Letter ft? 'Mat hew Maty, M. D. Sec. 

 R. S. from the Rev. John S win ton, B. ZX 

 F. R. $. Cujios Archivorum of the Uni- 

 <verfity of Oxford, Member of the Aca- 

 demy degli Apatifti at Florence, and of the 

 Etrufcan Academy ' of "Cortona in Tufcany. 



Dear Sir, 



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Head Feb. 27, \r j if j £ piece I have undertaken tocon- 

 JL fider here is a fubasrated (fee Tab. II. 

 11.1.) denarius of the Pketorian family, which lately fell 

 into-my hands. It exhibits on one fide a female head, 

 repreienting the goddefs Libera, or Proferpina, ac- 

 cording to M. (1) Havercamp, before which ftand the 

 letters POSlfl h P COSINI, very illpreferved. On 

 the reverie, we difcover a bufl of the goddefs SORS, 

 on a fort of balls, adorned with the infcription 

 F SOR ANT, or rather AISTj under which, in the ex- 

 ergue, appear the Etrufcan letters ^)^fsf\$ V'ftFJR, 



(1) Sig. Havercamp. Commentary in Fam. Roman. Num'ifm. 

 Omn. fcfep. 313, 314. 



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