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of the proper tera of that city, be looked upon as’ 
repugnant either to the Jewifh or Phoenician genius ^ 
a fimilar expreffion having been ufed, both in their 
writings (6) and on their coins (7), about the time 
that the Phoenician medal before me was ftruck, by 
the Jews. That the firft of the numeral characters 
here hands for TWENTY, we may infer from the 
correfpondent one of the Palmyrenes, to the form 
of which it is by no means unlike. This will like- 
wile be confirmed by the dates preferved on other 
Phoenician coins, which will be immediately pro- 
duced. The next, denoting a Idler number, and 
not reprefenting FIVE, which we find always ex- 
preffed by minute right lines on the Sidonian medals, 
muft indubitably occupy the place of TEN. The 
fix following ftrokes, after what has been juft ob- 
ferved, will be acknowleged to add SIX to the fore- 
going numbers ; fo that the infeription in the exergue 
will no longer remain a myftery, the whole only im- 
porting, IN THE YEAR OF SIDON XXXVI. 
II. 
I have three other coins of Sidon (8), of almofl in- 
tirely the fame type j only one of them exhibits a date in 
Greek numerals, and two bear Phoenician dates. The 
Greek numerals are EOT, CCCLXXV ; and the Phoe- 
nician correfpond with the numbers CXX, CXXVII, 
to both of which are prefixed the above-mentioned 
(6) 1. Maccab. i. 10. 
(7) Hadr. Reland. De Num. Vet. Hebr. paflT. Trajedli ad Rhe~ 
num , 1709. 
(8) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 2. 
V Q'L. 50. y I 
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