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XXIX. An Attempt to interpret the Legend 
mid Infcription of a very curious Phoenician 
Medal y never hitherto explained . In a 
Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of 
Morton, Prejident of the Royal Society , 
from the Rev. John Swinton, B . D. 
F. R. S. Member of the Academy degli 
Apatifti at Florence, and of the Etrufcan 
Academy of Cortona in Tufcany. 
My Lord, 
Read May 21, A P T. Swinton fome time fince put 
into my hands a very curious filver 
coin, taken, as he informed me, out of your Lord- 
lhip’s valuable cabinet. He at the fame time alfo im- 
parted to me your Lordfhip’s commands, relative to that 
coin. In obedience to which, I now do myfelf the 
honour to fend you the following interpretation of the 
legend and infcription it exhibits. This, as I cannot 
help believing it true, or at leaft not very remote 
from truth, may poflibly, I would flatter myfelf, prove 
not altqgether unfatisfa&ory or unacceptable to your 
Lordfhip. 
I. 
On one fide (fee Tab. XII.) the medal prefentsto 
our view Jupiter fitting in a chair, with his eagle before 
him, a bunch of grapes in his right hand, and a fort of 
lance, or rather flaff, as it fliould feem, in his left. Behind 
him the legend nn 7}0>baal tarz, orBAAL tars, 
formed of Phoenician letters, may be difeerned ; 
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