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^thefe medals all exhibit the head of Jupiter, and on 
the reverfe the prow of a fhip, the common fymbol- 
of Sidon. Moft of them had various Phoenician 
letters at fird impred on the upper part of the reverfe, 
and one of them (which is pretty remarkable) nearly 
the fame characters there that appear in the exergue. 
The fird of the coins mentioned here was druck in 
the year of Sidon 5. This has been perfectly well 
preserved, and is more curious than any of the red • 
which were emitted from the mint at Sidon in various 
years of the proper aera of that city, viz. the 107th, 
1 08th, noth, 1 nth, 1 1 2th, 114th, nyth, 116th, 
1 17th, and 1 19th. We meet on none of thefe medals 
with the figure denoting TWENTY, ufed by the 
Sidonians, during the period I am now upon. It not 
a little refembles that which prevailed at Tadmor ( 14) 
in the reign of the emperor Claudius, about forty- 
nine years after the birth of Christ. The mod 
antient of the Phoenician coins I am now confidering 
preceded the commencement of the Chridian asra 
104 years, and is confequently 15-3 years older than 
the earlied Palmyrene infcription that has hitherto 
come to our hands ( 1 5). 
IV. 
Some years fince I publifhed a fmall brafs medal 
of Sidon (16), with the heads of Jupiter and Juno 
on one fide, and the prow of a fhip on the reverfe ; 
(14) See the Phoenician Numerals in Plate xxxii. 
(15) Philofoph. Tranfaci. Vol. xlviii. Par. ii. p. 726. 
(16) De Num. quibufd. Sam. et Phasn. &c. DiJTcrt. p. 50—61. 
& Tab. II. Oxon. 1750. 
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