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unlefs we would luppofe it to denote AN HVN- 
DRED, and to refer to fome remarkable occurrence, 
from whence the Perfians dated their computation of 
time, in the days of Ochus, to us at prefent utterly 
unknown. 
n. 
The fecond medal (fee Tab. XIII. n, 3.) I receiv- 
ed, as a prefent, from the Reverend and learned Mr. 
Crofts, who brought it with him from Syria, at the 
lame time that he gave me the firft. Atergatis, or Der- 
ceto, on this filver piece, holds a concha -marina^ or fea- 
Ihell, in her left hand ; but, in all other refpeds, it is fo 
limilar to the former as fufficiently appears from the 
draughts of them both, that it may almoft, if not abib- 
lutely, pafs for a duplicate of the fame coin. The piece, 
how’ever, has been but indifferently preferved ; fo that 
without the affiflance of the medal already defcribed, 
it would have been of no great fervice to the learned 
world. 
As the two Phoenician charadlers, that occur on 
the firft medal, have been intirely defaced on this, by 
the injuries of time, I can offer nothing relative to 
them here. It may not, however, be improper to 
obferve, that neither this nor the former medal has 
yet, as far as I can find, been ever communicated 
to the learned world. 
III. 
The third medal (fee Tab. XIII. n. 4.) is a very 
fmall filver piece, and was prefented to me by my 
worthy and learned friend, the Reverend Mr. Thomas 
Crofts, who brought it with the other two, above de- 
fcribed, out of the Eaft. The reverfe, which exhibits 
the two Phoenician elements MA, and a galley, 
2 or 
