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or rather FVR, ANTIE, u e. FORS, FORTVNA, 

 or SORS, ANTII, or- ANTIAT, equivalent to the 

 Latin infcription above it. The Etrufcan elements 

 feem rather better preferved than the Latin. The 

 coin is, however, in but indifferent confervation, 

 though pretty much of the thin filver plate remains 

 itill upon it. I mult not omit obferving, that it has 

 pever yet been communicated to the learned world. 



II. 



The iymbol on the reverfe here is the fame that 

 occurs on the reverfes of two or three (2) other con- 

 sular coins of the Plaetorian family, with the word 

 SORS attending it. The Latin infcription, on the 

 piece before -me, is extremely fimilar to one upon 

 a denarius of the Hiiftian family, now rn my fmall 

 collection, a draught of which may be feen in the 

 plate (3) here referred to. The fymbol there is a 

 double Fortune, or rather two galeated Fortunes* 

 which were confidered as deities by the Romans. 

 The divinity SORS, on the coins of the Plaetorian fa- 

 mily, fimilar to mine, is aflerted by (4) Vaillant and 

 Havercamp to be the SORS, or rather one of the 

 SORTES, worfliiped in the temple of the SORTES 

 at Prasnefte; whereas it was the SORS, or rather 

 one of the SORTES, adored in the temple of thofe 

 deities at Antium, as we find demonftrativeiy proved 

 by the coin I am attempting to explain. The whole 



(2) Sig. Haverc. in Fam. Plat'oY. Tab. I. n. I, 2, 3. 



(3) See Tab. II. n. 2. 



.(4) I. Vaill. Num. Antiqu. Familiar. Romancer, p, 238, 235, 

 240. Anaftelsedanii, 1703. Sig. Haverc. Gsmment, &V. p. 324. 



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