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time. The workmanfhip is rude, fuch as vve find 
k to be in many of the more antient Etrufcan coins. 
The flip of metal projecting from the round of the 
weight demonftrates the piece to have been caft, and 
may therefore be confidered as a certain indication of 
it’s high antiquity. From the globule and two let- 
ters, t v, on the reverfe, we may infer this coin to 
have been a flips uncialis of the Tudertes, or people 
of Tuder, TOYAEP, as this antient city of Italy 
feems to have been called by (i) Strabo. It is 
at prefent known by the name of Todi. It went 
under the denomination of Tutere (2) amongfl the 
Etrufcans, and is pointed out to us by the let- 
ters t v, as here, on (3) feveral of their earlier 
coins. 
That this piece is an Etrufcan weight of very con- 
fiderable antiquity, feems likewife evident from the 
barbarous and uncouth tafte that appears in every part 
of it, in conjunction with the manner of writing, 
from the right hand to the left, viflble on it, which 
antiently prevailed over all the (4) lucumonies of 
Etruria. The figure on the reverfe, however rude 
and inelegant it may be, was perhaps intended to 
reprefent the prow of a fhip, fo frequently to be 
met with on this minute fort of coins. For a parti- 
cular and fatisfaCtory account of the early origin of 
(1) Strab. Geograph. Lib. x. Sil. Ital. 
(2) Anton. Francifc. Gor. Muf. Etrufc. p. 162, 427. Flo- 
rentiae, 1737. 
(3) Anton. Francifc. Gor. ubi fup. p. 427. Honor. Arigon. 
Num. Urb. et Popular. Hetrur. Tab. VII, VIII, VIIII, &c. 
Tarvifii, 1745. 
(4) Phil. Bonarot. Ad Monument. Etrufc. Oper. Demp/l . 
dddit, Expiuat. & Conject. § xlii. p. 90. Fiorentice, 1726. 
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