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coins of the fame age, will bring a frefh acceflion 
of flrength to the notion here propofed to the con- 
liberation of the learned ; if it will not, in conjunc- 
tion with what has been offered, evince this beyond 
the poflibility of a doubt. 
As the medal before me has never been hitherto 
published, nor perhaps ever feen in any other cabinet, 
either of the curious or the learned, I was in- 
clined to believe, that a defcription of it, as well as the 
draught of it attending this paper, [See Tab. I.] might 
not prove^altogether unacceptable to the Royal Society ; 
efpecially, as it enables us to emend the corrupted 
proper name of a town in Ptolemy, and evinces 
Dardanoffa, or Daraniffa, to have been fubjedt to Corn- 
modus when he prefided over the Roman world. 
Nor can any thing, as the authority of MSS. muftgive 
way to that of antient coins and infcriptions, be 
better fupported than fuch an emendation. Nor 
have any coins of this city been ever difcovered 
before. All which will, I flatter myfelf, be deemed 
a fufflcient apology for the trouble given on this oc- 
cafion by, 
S I R, 
Your mofl obedient humble Servant, 
Chrift-Church, Oxon. 
Dec. 7, 1765. 
John Swinton. 
V. Obfcrvations 
