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XVI. Obfervations upon two antient Etrufcan 
Coins , never before illuftrated or explained . 
i# <3 Letter to the Rev. Thomas Birch, 
D. D. Secret. R. S. from the Rev. John 
S win ton, B. D. F. R. S. Member of the 
Academy degli Apatifti at Florence, and 
of the Etrufcan Academy of Cortona in 
Tufcany. 
Good Sir, 
Read March 29, / | \ W O fmail Etrufcan coins, or 
1?t4 * JL weights, came lately into my 
poffeffion, which I take to have been never hitherto 
publifhed. Each of them is an uncia, or twelfth 
part of an as, and in pretty good confervation. The 
weight, or value, of each piece appears from a fingle 
globule on the reverfe. As on feveral accounts they 
leem to merit the attention of the curious, and have 
not been yet explained ; the Society will indulge me 
the liberty of imparting to them my fentiments 
of thefe valuable coins, and fubmitting to their 
confideration a few curfory remarks upon them here, 
[Tab. XI.] 
I. 
The firfl of thefe medals prefents to our view a 
diademated head, greatly deformed by the injuries of 
O 2 ' time 0 
