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former, however, differs from the latter in this, that it 
exhibits a lacquey, or Have, as it fhould feem, following 
the triumphal car. This renders itftill more probable, 
that the figure in that car was intended to reprefent a 
perfon of the firfl diftindfion, or rather a Perfian 
monarch. Both of thefe coins have been hitherto 
unpubliflied (34), though of medals fimilar to them, 
in conjundlion with feveral others of the fame kind, 
one (35) of the moft valuable parts of Lord Pem- 
broke’s ineftimable collection has been formed. 
If there were originally any characters on the piece 
laft deferibed, they have all been effaced by the in- 
juries of time. From the fourth medal I have at- 
tempted to elucidate in this paper, it feems to appear, 
that certain antient Perfian letters, as well as Phoe- 
nician, are fometimes handed down to us, by this 
fpecies of coins. A draught of one of them, in 
the (36) plate here referred to, may poffibly be 
thought, by fome, to bring a frefh acceffion of ftrength 
to fuch an opinion. 
Thus have I endeavoured to illuftrate five very 
valuable antient coins, ftruck in Palefline, or Phoe- 
by two horfes, and followed by a lacquey, or flave, on one fide, 
as here, attended by the Phoenician legend 30 j which is mani- 
feftly equivalent to the three letters ARC, the fecond charac- 
ter being a Phoenician monogram, formed of Refch and Caph. On 
the other fide, we difeover a galley, navigated by rowers, and 
adorned with one of the Dii Pataci, at theftern. Over the galley, 
there appears a date; which may, perhaps, denote 203, or 213, 
if we fuppofe the charadler reprefenting now defaced, to have 
originally occupied the chafm in the middle of the numerical 
charatfers, though the aera to which this refers I cannot take upon 
me to afeertain. The letters D"l 5 ?j ARC, evince the piece to have 
been ftruck at ARCA, or ARCE, a city of Phoenicia, between 
Byblus and Heliopolis, called by the Greeks ’'Apan, or ’'A^koh, as 
we learn from Stephanus Byzantinus. Sieph. Byzant. in voc, 
''Apyiri. Vid. etiam Luca Holjienii not. in lac. 
(34) Numifm. Antiqu. &c. p. 2. T. 75, 
(35} Kumifnt, Antiqu, &c. p, 2i T. 75, & 87. n. 2. 
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