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the piece in queftion was ftruck in Gozo, though 
the precife time of that operation cannot now be fo 
eaftly afcertained. 
From what has been faid, I flatter myfelf, the 
learned will admit the medal before me to have 
appeared firft in the ifle of Gozo, and not in Malta, 
as fome of the moll celebrated antiquaries have fup- 
pofed ; efpecially, flnce the people of the former 
ifland had a mint ereCted in their capital, from 
whence coins were emitted, with the word rAY- 
AITjQN on the reverfe (28), when under the domi- 
nation of the Greeks. One of thofe coins has a place 
affigned it in my fmall cabinet, and another in the va- 
luable collection of the Reverend and learned Mr. 
Ciacherode, Student of Chrift-Church, Oxon. My 
piece in the main is well preferved, though the three 
la ft letters of the legend on the reverfe have been ef- 
faced by the injuries of time ; but Mr. Cracherode’s, 
which is likewife in pretty good confervation, has 
handed down to us that legend perfect and intire. 
A draught of my medal attends this paper (fee Tab, 
XI. n. 2.), which for accuracy may be abfolutely de- 
pended upon. We may fafely therefore, as I appre- 
hend, attribute the Punic medal I am conftdering, as 
well as all others adorned with the fame Punic cha- 
racters, to the ifle, or city, of Gozo, to which it feems 
in reality to belong. 
To what has been here advanced it may poftibly be 
objected by fome, that the ifland of Malta is much 
fuperior, both in number of inhabitants and extent, 
to that of Gozo 3 and that mod of the antient coins 
(28) Feller, ubi fup. p. 34, 35, 36. 
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