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exhibit the Phoenician word NO, equivalent to the 
Hebrew DNQ, and Syriac NNO, AN HUNDRED, 
indead of the centenary numeral character. This, 
in conjun&ion with the appearance of that character, 
occupying the very place of the term NO, on others 
of thofe coins, fird induced me to believe, that the 
infcription preferved by every one of them in the 
exergue could be nothing elfe but a date. 
3. I diall beg leave farther to remark, that none 
of the indubitable medals of Tyre, adorned with 
Phoenician letters, as far as I have been able to dis- 
cover, prefent to our view any Phoenician dates at all. 
This dill more clearly evinces the fecond element 
prefixed to the Phoenician numerals in the exergue 
to point out to us the city of Sidon, and not that of 
Tyre; which (fi), indeed, feems already to have 
been fufiiciently proved. 
4. From the foregoing obfervations we may like- 
wile colledt, that the coin afiigned to Demetrius III. by 
Mr. Maflon, F. Froelich (52), and Sig. Haym, exhibit- 
ing a Phoenician legend, without a Phoenician date, 
in the exergue, ought in reality to be attributed to 
Demetrius I. Thofe three learned men therefore 
have been guilty of a midake in this particular. 
Nor can the head on this medal be denied to bear 
fome refemblance to that of Demetrius I. ( 53 ) 
with a moderate beard, as it appears on a coin pub- 
lilhed by Dr. Vaillant, and in one of F. Frcelich’s 
plates. That the letters A K, behind the head, in- 
(51) See above, p. 791, 792. 
(52) Nicol. Haym Roman, ubi fup. p. 100. Erafm. Froel. ubi 
up. p. 1 1 1 . r ab. XV . 
( 53 ) J oan - Foy-Vaill. ubi fup. p. 238. Erafm. Froel. ubi fup. 
p. 57. 'Fab. VII. Num. 1. 
dicate 
