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Received September 29, 1768. 
XXXVII. Elucidation of an Etrufcan Coin 
ofV adlum, in Lucania, emitted from the 
Mint there , about the Ernie of the Social 
War. hi a Eetter to Charles Morton, 
M. D. Sec. R. S. from the Rev . ]ohn 
Swinton, B. D F. R. S. Cuftos Archi- 
vorum of the U niverfity of Oxford, Mem- 
ber of the Academy degli Apatifti at Flo- 
rence, and of the Etrufcan Academy of 
Cortona in Tufcany. 
Dear Sir, 
with a defcription (fee Tab. XI. n. 4.) in this letter, at 
prefent in my fmall cabinet, was fomc years fince com- 
municated to the learned world by Sig. Pafleri ; and 
afcribed to the city ( 1) of P&ftum, in Lucania, of 
which fuch noble ruins are hill extant, by that ingenious 
author. This notion, upon farther examination, will 
be found by no means remote from truth ; though, by 
attributing a wrong power, as I apprehend, to one 
( 1 ) Joan. Baptift. Pafier. De Num.Etnifc. Pesjlanor. Differ tat. in 
Symbol. Litterar. t£c. Vol. fecund, p. 13 — 35. Florentine, 1748.^ 
ftead Nov. 24, 
J768. 
T 
H E coin adorned with Etrufcan 
characters, of which you will meet 
3 
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