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on the-reverfej which, exclufive of the infcriptions 
in the exergue, demonftrate the latter to belong to 
Sidon. The firft of mine was ftruck in the 143d 
year of the proper sera of that city, and the fecond 
five years after. They correct the barbarous date 
affigned by Sig. Arigoni to his coin. IVT. Bouteroue 
has not favoured the learned world with an explica- 
tion of the medal, of which he has given us a draught. 
Nor has M. l’Abbe Barthelemy, who likewife men- 
tions this very coin, informed us to what place it ap- 
pertains i but contented himfelf with barely (33) ob- 
serving, that the letters preferved on the reverie are 
Phoenician. I flatter myfelf therefore that I fhall 
not be charged with plagiarifm by this celebrated 
antiquary, in cafe what is here fubmitted to the con- 
fideration of the Royal Society fhould be fo happy 
as to meet with the approbation of that learned and 
illuftrious body ; not even by only acquainting the 
public, with a fort of politefle fo peculiar to his coun- 
trymen, that it is now become one of the moft dif- 
tinguifhing chara&eriftics of their nation (34), “ that 
“ a certain Oxford do&or has done him the honour 
“ to adopt the explication he had given.” 
IX. For 
( 33 ) Memoir. es de Litterature , tires des Regiftres &c. Tom. xxiv. 
p. 64. A Paris, 1756. 
( 34 ) The whole note, here referred to, in the original runs thus. 
“ J’avois lu ce Memcire a FAcademie en 1749, j e le communi- 
“ q uai dans le meme temps a un etranger qui fe trouvoit alors a 
“ Paris, & q ui fyant palle tout de fuite en Angleterre, fit part a 
Kl uri c ^ 0< ^ eui d Oxford de 1 explication que j’avois donnee de la 
“ medaiile de Jonathan. Ce cernier m’a pait I'bonneur de I'adopter 
t( dans une fa v ante Biflertation impnmee a Oxford en 1730, a 
* 1 la fuite 0 une autre BifTertation fur deux infcriptions Pher.i- 
“ ciennes.’* 
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