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fuch caffc pieces (5) as this, recourfe may be had to 
the very learned authors referred to here. 
With regard to the diademated head on this piece, 
I fliall only beg leave to obl'erve, that a fimilar one 
occurs on an antient Etrufcan coin publifhed by 
(6) Arigoni, on a very old medal of Rome now in my 
poffeffion (7), and undoubtedly on feveral other valua- 
ble pieces of a very remote antiquity, to be met with 
in the cabinets of the learned. This fmall Etrufcan 
uncia weighs precilely three penny weights and 
one grain. 
That the weight, or coin, I have been confider- 
ing was current in Etruria long before the people of 
that country found themfelves obliged to fubmit to 
the Roman yoke, will not, I think, admit of a dU 
fpute; but how many years it preceded that wherein 
the battle of the Lacus Vadimonis (8^, fo ruinous 
to the Etrufcans, was fought, for want of fufficient 
light, both from hiftory and the medal itfelf, X muff 
not take upon me to decide. 
Ih 
The fecond piece exhibits on one fide the head of 
Hercules, adorned with a lion’s fkin ; behind which a 
£fh, refembling the turfo, or tyrfo, appears, attended 
by three Etrufcan letters well enough preferved. On 
the reverfe a dolphin, or tyrfo, part of an anchor, and 
another fifh, under the former, prefen, t themfelves 
(5) Idem ibid. § xxxviii. p. 78. Anton. Francifc. Gor. ubi 
Tup. p. 421. Una Lettera At Signor Abate Barthelemy di Annibale^ 
degli Abati Olivieri, p. 27. In Pefaro, 1757. 
(6) Honor. Arigon. ubi fup. Tab. XIV, XVI„ 
(7) See Plate Fig. 
(8j T. Liv. Hijioriar. ab Ur be Conch Lib. lx, 
to. 
