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APPENDIX III. 



REMARKS ON THE EARLY COINS OF LYCIA, 

 BY DANIEL SHARPE, ESQ. 



Having been requested by Lieutenant Spratt 

 and Mr. Forbes to describe the early Lycian 

 coins collected during their journey in Asia 

 Minor, I have drawn up the following remarks 

 on the subject, and have included in them an 

 account of all the early coins of Lycia which 

 we could meet with, which had not been de- 

 scribed in my Appendix to Sir C. Fellows's work 

 on Lycia. 



In the term " early coins of Lycia" it is intended 

 to include all the coins supposed to be Lycian, 

 prior to those with Greek legends, or with the 

 type of a lyre : thus restricting the subject to 

 those coins which illustrate the history of the 

 Tremilse, or aboriginal Lycians. Of these coins 

 there are two principal classes, which belong 

 to two distinct periods : — 1st. Those distinguished 



