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We may therefore reafonably prefame !t to have ap- 
peared before the reduction of that country to the 
form of a province by the conful Ti. Coruncanius, 
in the year of Rome 473 ; if not before the terrible 
overthrow given the Etrul'cans by the conful Aimilius 
Barbula, in the year 442, which feems to have put 
a period to the independency of that nation. If we 
admit this, the coin cannot well be fuppofed to have 
preceded the birth of Christ lefs than three hun- 
dred years. Nay, it may be of a much earlier date, if 
the learned (20) Sig. Gori’s notion of the high anti- 
quity of the brafs Etrulcan coins be not altogether re- 
mote from truth. Be this as it will, no one has yet 
fully difproved or invalidated his opinion. 
From the coin here confidered, I think, we may 
venture to infer, that the manner of adorning with 
the head of Hercules fome of the Idler weights was 
(21) originally Etrufcan, but adopted afterwards by the 
Romans. The people of Fasfulas and the neighbour- 
ing trad undoubtedly formed one of the twelve lucu- 
monies, or cantons, of Etruria, and even made a figure 
after the Etrufcan times. A colony was fettled here 
by (22) Sylla, and the inhabitants of this place feem 
to have enjoyed the priviledges of a municipium in the 
days of (23) Pliny. Other points, belides thofe already 
mentioned, are clearly deducible from the medal I 
(20) Idem ibid. p. 419. Phil. Bonarot. ubi fup. 
(21) Anton. Francifc. Gor. ubi fup. p. 424, 425. Phih Bo- 
narot. ubi fup. 
(22) Cic. in Catilin. Orat. III. 
(23) Plin. Nat. Hiji . Lib. vii. c. xnt. p. 381. Ed. Hard. Pa- 
rifiis, 1723. 
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