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exergue, >.nnmn.>, c. paaph. c, indicates 
the piece to have been flruck foon after C. Papins 
Mutilus had been conftituted commander in chief of 
the Samnite forces, deftined to aCt againft the Ro- 
mans, when the Italian Rates took up arms againft 
the republic, about the year of the city 663. From 
the preceding obfervations it appears, that our coin 
exhibits the names of two great generals, of different 
families, Tiberius Veturius and C. Papius Mutilus, 
in conformity to the cuftom then (7) prevailing at 
Rome. For that iuch a cuflom prevailed there in 
this and the following age, feveral confular medals 
of the Coponian, Confidian, Curtian, Cocceian, Di- 
dian, Fonteian, Fufian, Mucian, &c. families leave 
us no manner of room to doubt. 
With regard to the letters of which the firfl 
Etrufcan inscription is compofed, I have not at pre- 
lent much to fay ; having already given a particular 
defcription of them, in a former paper. It may not 
be amifs however to remark, that the fecond of diofe 
characters is apparently the Samnite-Etrufcan I, 
adorned with a lort of accent - } which has been taken 
notice of by the learned ( 8 ) Sig. Annibale degli 
Abati Olivieri, in his fecond diflertation. Flow that 
mark or accent varied the power of this element, I 
fhall not prefume to decide ; but that the found of 
it was thereby in fome manner varied, I think can- 
not well be denied. The fourth letter is fucceeded 
by a monogram, or complex character, formed of E 
(7) Patin. Vail). & Sig. Haverc. in Famil. Copon . Conful Curt. 
Cocc. Did. Font. Fuf. Muc. &c. Num. 
(8) Sciggi di DiJJertaz. Accademic. publ. let. nella Nobil. Jcca- 
dem. Etrufc. dell antichiJJ , Cittd di Cortona, Tom. IV. p. 139, 
346, In Roma, 1743. 
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