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on the feverfe, as do Teveral other Punic or Africo- 
Phoenician coins. This appears from fome of the 
medals of the elder Juba, one of Achola, and another 
of Leptis, now in my fmall colle^lion ; to omit other 
fimilar iniftances, that might, with great facility, be 
produced : whereas, unlefs I am greatly deceived, 
none of the Afiatico-Phoenician coins have ever yet 
prefented to our.view any Latin charaders. This is 
an additional proof in fupport of what has been here 
advanced i and feems farther to ovince, that my medal 
muft be affigned to the town of Vabar, and was 
flruck there, when that place was occupied by either 
.the Carthaginians or, the African Phoenicians, and the 
Romans j though the time of that operation cannot, 
with any tolerable precifion, be afeertained. 
I fliall only beg leave to add, that though Vabar 
was a place of no great note in the days of Ptolemy, 
it feems to have been a town of fome confideration 
in the earlier times, as (7) Dr. Shaw faw fome 
ancient ruins on the fpot where it formerly flood j 
that a coin of this ancient city has never yet, I believe, 
been communicated to the learned world j that the 
medal before me, which at prefent has a place in my 
fmall cabinet, is one of thofe very few Punic or 
Phoenician. coins that are adorned with a Latin legend, 
* and confequently merits the particular attention both 
of the curious and the learned; and that I am, 
with the higheft regard, 
SIR, Your much obliged 
and mofl obedient humble fervant, 
Chrift'Church, Oxon. 
Sept. 28, 1770. 
(7) Shaw, ubi fup. p. 89. Oxford, 1738. 
VoL. LXL M XI. Remarks 
John Swinton* 
