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at Sidon, in the 83d, 87th, 95th, 105-th, 106th, 108th, 
1 1 4th, and 1 1 6th years of the asra peculiar to that city. 
A Phoenician coin of Sidon likewife occurs in one (22) 
of Sig. Arigoni’s plates, and another (23) in my col- 
le<ftion, with the turrited head and branch of palm 
vifible on three of the (24) medals above defcribed, 
which indifputably appertain to that city, together 
with the very Phoenician letters and fymbol impreft 
on the Sidonian coins now before me. This, ex- 
clufive of other coniiderations, that might be offered, 
muft fet the point I am here infilling upon beyond 
difpute. 
VI. 
I have another brafs Phoenician medal of Sidon 
{■25), not a little refembling thofe above-mentioned, 
both in workmanfhip and fize, prefen ting to our view 
on one fide the head of Jupiter, and on the other a 
human figure with a lance in its right hand. This 
coin, which has never yet been published, is adorn- 
ed with a Phoenician legend on the reverfe, different 
from thofe of all the others that have hitherto appear- 
ed. I therefore judged that a draught of it would 
not be unacceptable, though the date impreft origi- 
nally in the exergue (anfwering to the 26th year of 
Sidon) has a little buffered from the injuries of time* 
VII. 
The next Phoenician ' medal of Sidon, which I 
frail take the liberty here to defcribe, is a fmall brafs 
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(22) Id. ibid. Tab. I. . ; ) 
(23) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 6. - : 
(24) See p. 793, 794. ' - . > 
l .(75) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 7. 
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