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LX VI. Conjectures upon an inedited Parthian 
Com. By the Rev . John Swinton, B. D, 
of Chrift- Church, Oxon. F. R. S. 
To the Rev. Thomas Birch, D. D. Secretary to the 
Royal Society. 
Good Sir, 
Read May i, "T" Some time fince met with a Parthian 
•76°- C oin, nearly of the fize of the middle 
Roman brafs, that feems to merit the attention of 
..he curious. For though the piece itfelf is in very 
indifferent confervation, yet it has not been hitherto 
published, and may perhaps ferve to illuftrate an ex- 
ceeding rare coin, with a draught of which the learned 
world has been obliged by M. Bouteroue. As therefore 
it may poffibly be deemed not altogether unworthy the 
notice of the Royal Society, I have taken the liberty 
to trouble them with a few conjectures upon it ; efpe- 
cially, as they have done me the honour to order the 
publication of two papers, a few years fince, upon 
fimilar fubjeCts. To this I have likewife been farther 
excited by part of a letter, written lately to my worthy 
friend the Reverend Mr. John Nixon, a learned mem- 
ber of the Society, by Sig. Abate Venuti ; who 
therein mentions the famous F. Corfini’s approbation 
of my remarks upon MonnefesJs coin, inferted in the 
fiftieth volume of the Philofophical Tran faff ions, 
excepting that he fufpe&ed the Vittory on the re- 
verfe to allude to the Parthian monarch’s devaluation 
of the neighbouring provinces, and ufurpation of the 
Parthian 
