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the mint fhews, he could not difcern any appearance 
of wear upon it, therefore 1 fuppofe it was perfedt. 
He found two of the fame weight in the pofTeffion 
of Sir Simonds D’Ewes. 
He bought another at Conftantinople, which 
weighed 13-^ grains; with which comparing one of 
Sir John Mariham, he found the latter a grain 
deficient. 
He quotes Snellius for two gold coins, one of 
Philip, the other of Alexander, eacii weighing 179 
Dutch grains, which, he fays, anl'wer to 1341 Englifli 
(4). But in this he is miftaken, for they anlwer to 
no more than 13244. (5). Snellius, to favour an ilf 
founded hypothefis ot his own, fuppofes they had 
loft fomewhat of their firft weight (6), but does not 
fay they had any fuch appearance; and as they out- 
weigh the heavieft in the Britilh Mufeum, it is pro- 
bable they were perfedl. 
In the Pembroke coIle6Hon are two gold coins,, 
one of Philip, weighing 134 grains, the other of 
(4) P. 71. 
(5) Eilenfchmld. p. 16. fays, Budelius, who was mafter of the 
mint at Cologne, found the money-ounce ufed in Flanders and 
the United Provinces, to weigh 5794 Paris grains (equal t04754 
Troy) and that Gafi’endus found it but 577. See alfo the 
Memoires of the Royal Academy of Science, for the year 1767. 
pp. 364, 370. 1 weighed the Dutch half marc of 4 ounces, 
from Amlterdam, in an excellent balance, andfound it to weigh 
3 ounces, 19 p. weight, and 4 grains Troy; which divided by 
4, gives 19 p. weight, 19 grains, or 475 Troy grains, for the 
weight of the Dutch ounce. This oiuice contains 640 Dutch 
grains ; and 
As 640 to 179, fo are 475 to 132^^) the weight of Snellius’s 
coins. 
(6) See Snellius de re nummaria, Vol. IX, of the Thefaiurus 
Antiquitatuni Grsccarum, eg!. 1583. 
Alexander, 
