/ 
[ 247 ] 
of the chambers of the legend or infcription on the 
reverie, and confequently affigning a falfe leCticn to 
that infcription (2), Sig. Pafferi feems greatly to 
have fHaken, at lead, if not intirely overturned, his 
own opinion. 
The head, with curled hair, on one fide of this 
curious minute coin, may not improbably (3), as 
Sig. Pafferi believes, be the effigies of fome famous 
hero, or general, if not the founder of a city, that 
antiently bore a relation to the place where the 
piece was fcruck ; or it may poffibly, (4) as the 
fame learned gentleman also fuggefts, be allowed to 
point out to us fome local deity. Two of the fym- 
bols on the reverfe undoubtedly reprefent a dolphin 
and an acrodolium, though what that between thefe 
two was intended to point out to us, I cannot, with 
the fame facility, take upon me to decide. The 
globule in the middle of this lad, as it is termed by 
Sig. (5) Pafferi, is mod evidently on my medal fuch a 
concha marina, or fea diell, as we fometimes meet 
with on antient coins. This perfectly well agrees with 
the two fymbols abovementioned, and, in conjunction 
with them, clearly evinces the piece in quedion to have 
been the produce of a mint ereCted in a maritime 
towm. 
It may not be improper to obferve here, that a 
filver Greek medal, in fine confer vation, with the 
word KTMAION on the reverfe, in an oriental di- 
rection, from the right hand to the left, and two 
(2) Id. ibid. p. 17. 
(3) Id. ibid. p. 2 i. 
(4) Joan. Bapt. Pafler. ubi fup, 
(5) Id. ibid, p, 2 17 , 38. 
figures 
