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As the Carthaginians therefore ufcd, on certain 
occafions, the old Phoenician Koppa , or one of the 
earlieft forms of Koph ; we may from thence con- 
clude, that the character (26) on a Punic coin by 
me long ago explained, fo fimilar to that form, muft 
undoubtedly be taken for the fame element, as I 
theii mod clearly evinced. Nor has either M. l’Abbe, 
or any other French writer, hitherto overthrown this 
notion 5 though it has been called in quedion, if 
not denied (2 7), by M. Peilerin. Nay, it has 
been, in a manner, adopted fo me months fince, in 
the Journal des Scava?is , (28) and even by M. 
l’Abbe himfelf, in the (29) celebrated memoir that 
is the objedt of my attention here. 
It has been juft oblerved, that the Lamed on the 
Sicilian coin lad defcnbed is of an unufual form. 
Give me leave to add, that another of my Punic 
medals druck in Sicily has preferved a form of that 
letter, fomewhat more dmilar to the correfpondent 
character in the alphabet deduced by M. 1 ’Abbe 
from feveral Siculo-Punic coins. This medal has on 
one fide the head of Jupiter, and on the reverfe 
two ears of corn, attended by the Punic infcription 
ALICA, or HALICAH, the AAIKTAI, Or HALICY2E, 
of (30) Diodorus Siculus, fituated between Entella 
and Lilybaeum, according to (31) Cellarius. . The 
(26) De Num. quibufd. Samaritan. Lf Phasnic. &c. DiJ/ert. \ 
p. 86, 87. Oxon. 1750. 
(27) Recueil de Mcdailles de Peuples & de <Villes ) 
Tom. III. p. 141, 142, a Paris, 1763. 
(28) Journ . des Sfavans , Aout p. 280. 
(29) Mem. de Litter, ubi fup. p.414. 
(30) Diod. Sic. Lib. XIV. c. 25. 
(31) Chrift. Cellar. Geograpb, Ant. Lib. II. c. 12. 
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