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will not be conteiled in any part of' the learned, 
world. 
ii:. 
The fecond piece, or weight, of ‘which I propofe to ’ 
give an account in- this paper, is a ftips uncialisj (See 
Tab. JII, n. 5.) as appears both from the weight and 
fize of it, of the earlielt date. I received it, as a prefent, > 
from my worthy friend James Gilpin,. Efq; late re- 
corder of the city of Oxford, with feveral other ancient 
brafs coins. On one fide it has preferved the head, or 
rather a full face, . of the ^ fon ; the workmanfhip • 
of which is more rude and barbarous than that of any 
other fimilar piece- that ever fell under my view, and 
done pefeCtly in the mofl ancient Etrufcan tafce. 
The reverfe had originally on it the prow of a .fhip, 
which has been fo totally effaced- by the injuries of 
time, that only a very few exceeding faint traces of 
if'are now to be feen. The relief on the face -fide 
iS'-very high, as was undoubtedly at fiffl'that on the- 
other; but the. reverfe being in a manner* quite 
I'moothed, nothing there remains but the veftiges of 
the prow of a fifip, that are barely vifible. How- 
ever, juff over the prow, we may difcover- clearly 
enough the legend in Etrufcan charac- ' 
ters, though but very inditferentiy preferved. That - 
* We meet with a- full face of the fun pretty much refembling' 
this on a lienarius of the Plau.ian family, but done in a much 
more elegant talfe ; which demonftrates it to be valfly inferior, 
in point of antiquity, to t le piece I am now offering my 
thoughts upon. Sig. Havercamp. Thi'faur, Morel. Tom. II, 
p, 329, Amiidaedami, 1734. 
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