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are given in Mionnet and Sestini, &c. ; but 

 the published legends in unknown alphabets 

 are so little to be relied on, that it is more 

 prudent to leave them for the present. 



The only coin on which the legend is con- 

 sidered regal is that of Artoapara, ante, No. 16. 



There are other instances of a change in 

 the name of towns indicated by the legends 

 on their coins, but of which we have no other 

 evidence : one instance is on the early coins 

 of Selge, which have the name of Estfediius, 

 which must be taken as the name of the town 

 in a former language ; another is on the early 

 coins of iEgesta or Segesta in Sicily, which have 

 the following legends, SErE, SErESTA, 2ATE2- 

 TAffi I, EErESTA ffilB, SErE2TAIIE, or 2EC- 

 E2TAK IBEMI ; while on later coins we have EF- 

 E2TAI0N and ErHSTAIQN, from which we may 

 infer that the language of the town had changed 

 to Greek at an early period, before the use of 

 the vowels H and Q. All the traditions con- 

 nected with Segesta give the inhabitants a Trojan 

 origin, so that it is among the languages of Asia 

 Minor that we must look for analogies to the 

 language of the earlier coins ; the first four 

 legends given above are probably initial, the 



