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and there are more of that ipecies now remaining, 
than of any other. 
In the Britifli Mufeum are three gold coins of 
Philip, which have all the fharpnefs ot new money 
frefh from the mint. The heavieft of them weighs 
above 132I. Troy grains. A fourth, in the fame 
colledion, hath a hole punched through it ; but in 
other refpedts, feems as perfect as the red, and is the 
heavieft but one, of the four. There is likewife, a 
double Philippic of Alexander, perfedt and unworn, 
which weighs 265 grains. 
There are two more of Philip, in this colledlion, 
each weighing 132 grains, one of Alexander, of 
1324, and another of 131-fj hut thefe are all a 
little worn, therefore I fhall make no ufe of them. 
Mr. Stuart brought home a Philippic, which, 
though not fo fair in appearance as the bed in the 
Britidi Mufeum, weighed 133-ro- grains. 
Out of feven of the mod perfedt gold coins of 
Philip and Alexander, in Mr. Duane’s colledtion, 
four weighed 133 grains each. He hath a mod 
beautiful coin of Alexander of Epirus, brother to 
Olympfas, the mother of Alexander the Great, 
weighing 1324. grains; the workmandiip is exqui- 
dtely fine, and as perfedt as when it was fird druck. 
Greaves tells us, he bought at Alexandria a Phi- 
lippic of Alexander, which he thought the faired in 
the world, weighing exadtly 133^- Englifii grains. 
But, to bring it up to the dandard of his Tetradrachm 
of 268 grains, he luppofes it might want half a grain, 
either by time, or the mint (3). His mentioning 
(3) Greaves, p. 7a. 
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