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But to whatever town or country my medal ori- 
ginally appertained, it undoubtedly evinces the cha- 
racter I formerly took for Koph not to be Aleph , as 
fome have fuppofed it to be, but in reality to be en- 
dued with the power of Koph ; though it has been 
ranked amongil the (6) forms of Aleph , in my 
Siculo-Punic alphabet, by miftake. As both thofe 
elements are not only vifible, but tolerably well pre- 
ferved, and as it were placed in contrail, on this 
coin, the truth of the point in queilion will the 
more clearly appear. I fhall only beg leave to add, 
that if the piece was ftruck at Agrigentum, as I am 
inclined to believe it was, it muft have been of a 
pretty early date, as the Carthaginians feem to have 
had no particular connexions with that city for at leaft 
a century before the deftruXion of their republick; and 
that I am, with great coniideration and efteem, 
Good Sir, 
Your very faithful, 
and moft obedient, 
humble fervant. 
Ch rift- Church, Oxoru 
Nov. 12, 1768. 
John S win ton. 
(6) Pkilo/oph, Tranfaft. Vol. LIV. Tab. xxiv. p. 409. 
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