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but did not accurately enough defcribe the numeral 
characters, and two initial letters, in the exergue. 
I therefore take the liberty to fend (17) you a new 
draught, perfectly well done, of that mfeription. 
Two more coins of the fame type I have fince ac- 
quired, and another may be feen in (18) Sig. Haym. 
Thefe four pieces only exhibit the years of Sidon 
125 and 132. 
v. 
Mv imall collection likewife affords two (19) other 
Phoenician medals of Sidon, (20) and Archbifhop 
Wake’s noble cabinet one, of tire fame type, with 
different Phoenician dates in the exergue. To thefe 
may be added five, with the publication of which 
the learned world has been obliged by Sig. Arigoni 
(21 ). The anterior faces of thefe Coins are adorned 
with a veiled head, reprefenting the genius of the 
city wherein they were (truck; and the reveries with 
a human figure leaning upon a pillar, and holding a 
branch of palm in its right hand. Several Phoenician 
letters alfo there appear, which may perhaps at fifft 
light feem to render it fomewhat doubtful, whether 
the medals belong to Sidon or not. But every fuf- 
piuon arifing from henee muff immediately vanifh, 
when we caft our eyes upon the two initial elements, 
and tne numeral charaClers, in the exergue 5 which 
clearly enough indicate the pieces to have been (truck 
(17) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 4. 
(18) Haym, ubi fup. p. 107. 
(19) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 5. 
(20) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 5. 
(21) Honor. Arigon. Num. Pbcenic. Tab. I, IL Tarvifii, 1745. 
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