I 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
Part II. ' 
XL. Ohfey'vations upon Five antient Perfian Coins, 
ftruck in Paleftine, or Phoenicia, before the T)iffolutio 7 i 
of tht Perfian Empire. In a Letter to Mathew Maty, 
M. D. Sec. R. S. fro 7 ?i the Rev. John Swinton, 
B. D. F. R. S. Cufos Archivorum of the dniverfity 
of Oxford, Member of the Acade?ny degli Apatifti 
at Florence, and of the Etrufcan Academy of Cor- 
tona in Tufcany. 
SIR, 
Read June 20, ^ | H E coins before me, as well as fe- 
1771* Jl^ veral others limilar to them, were' 
undoubtedly llruck, in fome of the cities of Syria, 
Paleftine, or Phoenicia, before the reduction of thofe 
provinces, and the conqueft of the Perftan empire, 
by Alexander the Great. This, if I am not mif- 
taken, was flrft remarked by ( i) M. Baudelot j who 
has been lately followed herein by (2) M. I’Abbe 
Barthelemy, and (3) M. Pellerin. I intirely agree 
whith all thofe learned men in what they have ad- 
vanced relative to thofe coins, and fhall now beg 
leave to fubmit a few curfory obfervations upon five of 
them (as the fubjedl is extremely curious) to the con- 
deration of the Royal Society j which may poflibly 
(1) Baudel. VUtillt. des voyag. See. p. 638. A Paris, 1693. 
(2) 'Journ. des Sfav. See. X. LIII, Aout, 1760. p. 279, 280. 
(3) eWer. Recueit de Medail. de Rois, Sec, Explicat. de la 
Vignette, p. iil. iv. A Paris, 1762. 
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