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YL An Extrafl of a Letter from Mr Ralph Thores- 
^ by, F.Q(.S. toDrUms SlomQy S.% S.^ co?t^ 
ceniingfomeSwcdifhiCoyns ; and a C a! ad at ion for 
the finding of EzHot^ 
Honour d Sir. 
I Have a Siredf/Ij Coyn^ or rather Square Copper Piate^ 
9 inches brosd, and 9 and a half long, which is much 
like thQ Roman JEs grave^ and was currant there fo lately 
as An. 16 jg, (tho now rhey are not to bernet with) It has 
at each corner the Impreffion of a Crown, under which 
is the Year, and round it this Infcription^ CAROLUS XF. 
D G. SVE. GOT. WAN. REX. and in the middle of the 
Plate in a Circle 2 DALER. SO!H. M jt. The other fide 
of the Plate is without any Infcription. . 
The Treati'e you mentioned concerning a Coyn of 
mine, inferted in the late Edition of the Britannia^ is, ! pre* 
fume, upon the Runic Annulet of the God Thor^ of which I 
have\ the Learned Readings of tvf o very great Men, my 
Lord Bifhop of CarliJJe and Dr hicks .-. And as the Amient 
Heathens infcribed the Name and Effisies of their repu- 
ted Deity upon that Pifce, fo feveral of the Modern 
Chriftian Princes of th6fe Northern Countrys/ have 
infcri bed the ISlomen Tetragrammaton of our Almigh- 
ty Jehovah on fome of their Moneys: I have een 
Svens\it marc of CA^We/ the 9tb with it, furrounded with 
rajrs of Glory in the midft of the Ar^a on the Reverfe.and 
a Mark, ^ Mark, and a 2 Mark piece all of the famous G»* 
^Avm Adol^hus^ with the like Chara&ers above the Kings 
Head. 
The Learned and Ixi^^mom Richard Thornton Efq^ up- 
on reading Dr Wallk\ Letter to Sir John Blencowe^ one 
of his then Majefty's Juftices^of ..the Court of Common 
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