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Received December i2, 1765. 
IV. Account of an inedit ed Com of the Emprefs 
Crifpina. In a Letter to the Rev. Thomas 
Birc h j D. L). Secretary to the Royal Society , 
from- the Rev. John Swinton, B.D. F.R. S. 
Member of the Academy degli A pat i ft i at 
Florence, and of the Etrufcan Academy- 
of Cortona in Tufcany. 
s i r; 
Re a d Feb.- 13, . A fvj inedited Greek coin of the em- 
j \ prefs Crifpina, which feems to have 
had a place formerly aligned it in the cabinet of the 
celebrated Ptofeffor Gtt, and from thence afterwards 
to have paffed into that of his fon, die late Re- 
verend Mr, Ott, fome years fince fell into my hands. 
The medal is nearly of the fize of the middle Ro- 
man brafs; and tolerably well preferved. The work- 
manfliip is fomewhat rude, and favours fufficiently 
both of the age and the remote province in which 
it firft appeared. On one fide is exhibited the head 
of Crifpina, wife of the emperor Commodus, at- 
tended by the Greek legend KPICneiNA CEB ACT H, 
crispina avgvsta and on the reverie two hu- 
man figures, one fitting in a chair, with a lance in 
its left hand, and the other handing by its fide, 
prefent themfelves to our view. They are both 
E 2 furrounded 
