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My explications of the firft, fecond, and fixth me- 
dals in M. 1’ Abbe’s plate of coins may be feen in a 
fmall Latin diffiertation, put to the prefs at Oxford, 
in 1753. That of the lixth, however, which is a 
medal of Laodicea, muff be owned to be incom- 
plete ; the four laft letters of the infcription having 
been defaced on my coin, by the injuries of time. 
Nor am I intirely latisfied with M. FAbbe's inter- 
pretation of the latter part of this infcription, as it 
leems very forced and unnatural, and even con- 
trary to the faith of hiftory. Nay, it feems not 
perfectly to pleafe M. l’Abbe himfelf, as he has 
not abfolutely fettled the power of one of the letters 
of which it is compofed ; but contents himfelf with 
(15) obferving, “ that this flight difficulty will 
“ hereafter be removed by other monuments.” His 
interpretation of the infcription exhibited by the coin 
of Sidon, which he makes coeval with the reign 
of Antiochus IV. is likewife liable to exception, as will 
appear to every one moderately verled in this branch 
of literature, who examines it with proper attention. 
The other two pieces of Sidon prefent nothing very 
remarkable to our view. One of them has never- 
thelefs handed down to us the very character averted 
by me to reprefent Txade, but taken by M. l’Abbe 
Barthelemy for Thau , immediately preceding certain 
numeral characters, which have been fully explained 
in one of my former papers, on the reverfes of le- 
veral Sidonian coins. 
(1.5) Mem, de Litter, ubi.fup. p. 417. 
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