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Received November 14, 176$. 
XL. Obfervations on an inedit ed Coin , adorn- 
ed with two Punic Characters on the Re- 
verfe. < In a Letter to Mathew Maty, 
M. D. Sec . R. S, from the Rev . John 
Swinton, B. D. F. R. S. Cnflos Archivorum 
of the Univerfity of Oxford, Member of the 
Academy degli Apatifti at Florence, and 
of the Etrufcan Academy of Cortona in 
Tufcany. 
Good Sir, 
brought me a lmall brafs medal, exhibiting on one 
fide the head of a woman, decked with ears of corn ; 
and on the other a horfe {landing (fill, and looking 
behind him, or towards his tail, one of the ufual fym- 
bols on the reverfes of fuch Punic coins. The me- 
dal is pretty well preferved, and adorned with two Pu- 
nic characters; one of which is placed near the 
horfe’s bread:, and the other under his belly. Nei- 
ther of them fee ms to have buffered much, -if at all, 
from the injuries of time. 
Thefe two Punic letters may, as I apprehend, be 
fafely pronounced Aleph and Koph, and mud. be con- 
fidered as forming the firfl part of the name of 
Read ~ 
BOUT three months fince, a friend 
of mine (fee Tab. XII. n. 5.) 
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