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be fe.cn in the Latin diflertation ( 20 ) above re- 
ferred to, which it would be fuperfluous to touch 
upon here. 
With regard to the Punic element taken for He by 
M. 1’Abbe, on two Siculo-Punic coins, he feems to 
give up in one part of his memoir the form of it fo 
warmly by him contended for in another. For he> 
exprefly allows, that this character on one of thei 
Siculo-Punic medals exhibiting it may reprefent Mem,' 
as well as He. From whence- we may infer, that 
the correfpondent letter on the other, as the word to' 
which this character belongs is on both medals the> 
fame, may likewife, with no fmail appearance of 
truth, be taken for Mem; and confequently that, ac- 
cording to M. 1’ Abbe, the letter He may be fuppofed 
never in reality to have exifted on either of thofe 
Siculo-Punic coins. 
’Tis obfervable, that on one of the coins of Mense; 
in M. l’Abbe’s plate, the words n£HH m?, vrbs 
NovA r , feem to appear ; and that the firfl: element of 
this infcription, if the draught of it here may be de- 
pended upon, is the Koph of nearly the Chaldee form. 
I ' have, however, a Punic medal in my collection* 
(fee Tab. XXI.) with the old Phoenician Koppa 
on the reverfe, and the names of two Sicilian ci- 
ties, in Punic characters, never hitherto publilhed. 
A galeated head, with a fprig of laurel before 
it, on one fide, prefents itfelf to our view ; and 
the triquetra, or fymbol of Sicily, with a human 
face in the middle of it, appears on the reverfe, 
(20) Swint. De Num. qutbufd . Samaritan. & Phaemc. 
Dtffert. Oxon. 1753. 
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