58 DAR1CS BEARING THE TRIQUETRA STAMP. 



specimens of cuneiform inscriptions in Lycia ; as 

 these coins contain the earliest specimens of the 

 numismatic employment of that language." 



Shortly before the death of Mr. Daniell, he 

 communicated to us by letter the discovery of 

 another curious fact tending to prove the con- 

 nection of the triquetra coins of Lycia with the 

 Persians. Amongst other coins purchased by 

 him in that neighbourhood, were two or three 

 darics (a gold coin, ascribed to Persia; hence 

 their name, from the monarch supposed to have 

 issued them). On these, he observed a counter- 

 stamp, apparently intended to make them current 

 in some other country than that for which they 

 were first coined ; and on a close examination he 

 was no less pleased than surprised to fine} a 

 symbol resembling that on the coinage of Lycia, 

 viz. the so-called triquetra ; in all probability 

 stamped with the intention of making those coins 

 current in that country, after their having been 

 carried there by the Persians themselves, for 

 the use of those of their nation who became 

 settlers. 



The generally received opinion that the lan- 

 guage now called Lycian was that of the indige- 

 nous Lycian people, rests upon historical evi- 



