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coin has not hitherto been publiihed, I believe, by 
any author whatfoever. 
Amongft my Siculo-Punic coins there is likewife 
one with the letters Hheth and Beth , on the reverfe. 
Thofe elements undoubtedly form part of the word 
nSdH, hibla, or hybla, the Punic name of a 
town, or- rather three towns, of Sicily, according to 
Bochart. That a- mint was ereded in one of them, 
at lead, from an antient medal, with the words 
YBAAE METAAAE imprefled upon it, may be cer- 
tainly inferred. The Greek cities of Sicily not fel- 
dom exhibited on their money only part of their 
names, as we learn from (32) feveral of the Greek 
Sicilian coins ; and that the towns there under the 
dominion of Carthage did the fame, we have all the 
reafon in the world to believe. 
Another medal alfo appears in my little cabinet 
with the character reprelenting Hheth only, on 
the reverfe. That charader may be taken for the 
initial letter of the Punic proper name N'Ssn, hibla, 
or hybla ; and may indicate this piece to have been 
ftruck in the city lo called, as well as the former. 
Indances of fuch initial letters as this pretty frequently 
occur, on feveral of the (33) Greek Sicilian coins. 
Two of my fmall Carthaginian medals have pre- 
lerved the letter Ghimel , on their reverfes, of the 
ufual Punic or Phoenician form. This feems to be 
(32) Erafm. Froel. in Notit. Elmentar. Numifm. pafT. Filippo 
Parut:. in La Sicil. deferit. con Medagl. & c. palT. In Roma, 1649. 
Vid. etiam Hubertum Goltzium, in Sicil. Numifm. pall'. Ant- 
verpiac, 1617. 
(33) Erafm. Froel. in Notit. Elcmcntar. Numifm. p. 83. 
■Vieiuue, Pragae, 6c Tcrgefti, 1758. Parut. et Goltz. ubi fup. 
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