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figures extremely fimilar to thofe under the dolphin 
on my coin, which he takes to belong to the city 
of Cuma in Campania, has been publilhed by (6) M. 
Pellerin. 
With regard to the legend or infcription, preferved 
on the reverfe, it may not be improper to remark, 
that the fifth letter, taken (7) by Sig. Pafferi for l, 
is, at lead in my opinion, moft certainly v. This 
is fufficiently apparent from even the four coins pub- 
lifhed by that ingenious gentleman, in the piece (8) 
here referred to ; and ftill more fo from the medal 
now before me, as well as from another in the va- 
luable collection of the Reverend and learned Mr. 
Cracherode, Student of Chrift-Church, both of 
which are in the fined; confervation, and clearly exhi- 
bit v v, not lv. In other refpedts, the leCtion af~ 
ligned this minute infcription (9) by Sig. Pafleri 
feems nearly to approach the truth, if it be not per- 
fectly true. I fhall therefore take the liberty to read 
it zivvTzis, PinsTvvis; which, according to the 
cacography, or uncouth manner of writing, of the 
Etrufcans (10), mentioned by me in a former 
paper, may, with fufficient propriety, be deemed equi- 
valent to the Latin p^stvm. The infcription will, 
however, become quite another word, by the converfion 
of the firft v into l, effentially different from the Latin 
name of the city wherein Sig. Pafferi fuppofes it to 
(6) Peller. Recueil de Medailles de Pcuples id de Villcs , id c. 
Tom. I. p. 47. pi. viii. n. 23. A Paris, 1763. 
(7) Jo. Bapt. Pafler. ubi tup. p. 19. 
(8) Id. ibid. p. 15 — 17. 
(9) Id. ibid. p. 19, 20. 
(10) Pbilofoph. Tratifafi, Vol. LI. Par. II. p. 85S. 
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