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one (26), now in my hands, with a veiled -head on 
the anterior face, and the prow of a /hip on the re- 
verie. M. Bouteroue (27), who has publi/hed it, 
rightly aiferts it to be a Phoenician coin. The year 
of Sidon, preferved in the exergue of mine, is 74 ; 
and that in the exergue of M. Bouteroue s, 73, though 
the firft numeral character of the latter is fomewhat 
deformed. 
VIII. 
The laft Phoenician medals I /hall at prefent pro- 
duce, in order to fettle the point in view, are (28) 
two in my po/Te/fion, intirely agreeing both in type 
and form, as remarkaole as any of the others here 
touched upon. A fimilar coin has been publi/hed 
by Sig. Arigoni (29), and another (30) by M. Bou- 
teroue ; both of which, on feveral accounts, merit 
the attention of the learned. They exhibit on one 
tide the head of Jupiter laureated, with a beard; and 
on the reverfe a double cornucopia, together with 
three or four Phoenician elements, one or two of 
which are in a great meafure. defaced. Abrafs medal 
of Sidon occurs in Archbi/hop Wake’s (31) col- 
lection, as well as one in (32) mine, with the head of 
Jupiter done exactly after the fame manner as that on 
the pieces before me, and Europa carried by a bull 
(26) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 8. 
(27) Recberchfs Curieufes des Monoyes de Frame &c. Par 
Uaude Bouteroue, p. 33 A Paris, 1666. 
(2-8) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 9. 
(29) Honor. Arigon. ubi fup. Tab. I. Num. 2. 
(3°) Claud. Bouteroue, ubi fup. p. 24. 
(31) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 9. 
(32) See Plate xxxi. Fig. 9. 
