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exchanged, did not exceed the value of nine of thofe'. 
animals. The figure of the ox on the moll ancient 
money Teems to have been Toon converted in Etruria - 
into the Tymbol of the head of that beall connedled 
with the head of Janus, who is (5) faid to have firfl 
introduced the ufe of money into Italy. The head* 
of the bufolo, or wild ox, may, as I conceive, have 
appeared on Tome of the mod ancient coins of Tuf- 
cany, and particularly the piece I am at prefen t con- 
fidcring, becaufe the bufolo was formerly, and is dill,, 
a native of that country. When I redded there, 
above thirty years dnce, the w'oods between Leghorn^ 
and Pifa abounded with them. They were then 
likewife faid to have been very numerous in other 
parts of Tufcany, and La Romagna and feveral of 
them, at different times, both tamed and wild, I’ 
myfelf have there fecn The reafon here mentioned 
Teems to extend to other remains of antiquity of the 
Etrufcans beddes their coins, on which the head of 
the bufolo appears, as the (6) authors here referred 
to have rendered fufficiently clear. 
From what has been obferved, as well as from the 
thicknefs, high relief, and extreme rudenefs of the 
workmanffdp, or rather in conjun(dion with thefe, we' 
may conclude, that our As is either coeval with fome 
(5) Cytberlus Poet, apod Athen. Deiprtofoph^ Lib. xv. 
(6) Anton. Francifc. Gor. Muf. Etrufc. Tab. CXXIII. 
Rami!ton*s Collet, of Etrufe. Gre^k^ and Rom, Antiqu, Vol. 11 . 
pi. 63. 1 havea £ne Etrufean Vas Potoiium, (See Tab. III. n.3.) 
ending in a bufolo’s head ; which, as I apprehend, fosmcrly be- 
longed to Caidinat Giiahieri ; as alfa another, terminating in 
(See Tab. III. n. 4.) the head of a gray-hound, fimilar to one 
publilhed by Mr. Hamilton, which had likewife a place alBgned 
it in the Cardinal’s coilcdlion of Etrufean antiquities. I bought 
Voth of them of Sig. Barazzi, at Rome, in 1733. Han>ilton's 
Etruf^Greeij amlRom. AutiqwtxVo], 1, pi. 49. 
