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Medals is l'urprizingly, copious and valuable. To the 
ancient Greek and Confutar , or Family-Monies of the Ro- 
mans, he hath added above a thoufand Imperial, feveral 
of which are noted by the learned Baron Spanhemius as 
very rare? and fo likewife are thofe juftly efleemed that 
relate more immediately to Britain , whether minted by 
the Romans or Britains. That of Thor with Runic Letters 
is ineftimable, being the only known Piece in the World 
with thole ancient Characters upon it. This was firft 
deciphered by the Right Reverend Dr. Nicholfon Lord 
Bifliop of Carlijle, and after by Dr. Hicks , the two great 
Revivers of that fort of Literature. Upon which fingle 
Medal a learned Foreigner hath printed a diftinCt Trea- 
tife. * *And the ingenious Sir Andrew Fountain in his Differ- 
tatio Epiftolarts to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of 
Pembroke , faith exprefly Numifmatum omnium qua aut 
“ Anglo- Saxonibus,. aut Anglo-Danis in ufufuiffe videntur> 
st nullum not at u dignius eft, quam id literis Runicis infer ip- 
“ turn, quod pcjjidet vir getter e & ingenio clarus Radulphus 
" Thoresbeius, Leodienfis. ” Thofe of the, Saxon Kings 
begin with a very choice one of Edwin the ancienteft 
Coin of the Englifh Nation, and of the firft Chriftian King 
of Northumberland ; and are fucceeded by thole of the 
Danijh and Norman Lines, and continued to the prefent 
Age, in a great Variety of current Monies and Medals in 
Gold, Silver and Copper. Thofe of Ireland and the Englifh 
Plantations in America, are interfpers’d in the feveral 
Reigns : but thofe of Scotland, from the firft of the Alexan- 
ders, are fb numerous and valuable as to meric a particu* 
* De Argento infignito Rums feu literis Gothicis,©^, Sententia Nicholai 
Kederi, Regii Antiijiutatum Collegii, quod Helmi* eft, Aflefloris. 4/0 
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