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initial letters. We meet with draughts of two fimilar 
medals in (9) Arigoni, adorned with characters, ex- 
prefling the numbers CXXVIII, CXXX. All thefe 
coins prefcnt to our view a turrited head and a branch 
of palm, pointing out to us the country to which 
they belong, and on the reverfe the ufual fymbol of 
Sidon. "I he year handed down to us by the Greek- 
date EOT, is the 375th of the aera of Seleucus $ 
and thofe denoted by the Phoenician numerals anfwer 
to the 1 20th, 127th, 128th, and 130th, of the pro- 
per aera of Sidon, as will be hereafter more fully 
evinced. Hence we may certainly colleCt, that thefe- 
pieces were ftruck at Sidon in the years of Christ' 
r j, 18, 19, 21, and 64. 
III. 
Three coins of Sidon, different from the former, 
occur in (10) Sig. Haym, and feven (n) more in my 
little cabinet, whole type is altogether the fame, with 
Phoenician dates, preceded by the two aforefaid initial 
letters, upon them. To which we may add five, 
preferved in the noble (12) cabinet bequeathed to 
Cbrift-Church, Oxon. by Archbifhop Wake, and 
another in the valuable collection of the Rev. Dr. 
Barton (13), Canon of the faid collegiate church, 
and a worthy member of this Society. On one fide 
(9) Honor. Arigon. Num. Phcenic, Tab. I. Num. 3, 6. Tarvilii, 
* 745 - 
(10) Nicol. Haym Roman. Del Tefor . Britan, Vol. i. p. iq6 . 
In Londra, 1719. 
(11) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 3. 
(12) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 3. 
(13) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 3. 
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