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Received July 4, 1 766. 
XXXVII. Defer iption of two Parthian Coins , 
never hitherto publifhed. By 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, in a Fetter to Charles Morton, 
M. D. Sec. R . S. 
Dear Sir, ; 
Read Dec. 1 8, f | ^ OWARDS theclofe of laft month, 
1/06 X a ^ ew after my vifit to you at 
Montague-Houfe, I met with two antient brafs coins, 
pretty well preferved, that had formerly had a place 
afligned them in the valuable collection brought by 
the Right Reverend Dr. Pococke, Lord Bifhop of 
Meath, out of the Eaft. The workmanfhip of thefe 
pieces feems confiderably different from that both of 
the Parthian coins, hitherto published, and thofe 
ffruck by the Perfian princes of the houfe of Saffan. 
It fomewhat, however, refembles that of the brafs 
medals of one or two of the later Parthian kings. As 
I take them never to have appeared before in this part 
of the world, and highly to merit the attention of the 
curious j I fhall beg leave, without any farther apolo- 
gy, to tranfmit accurate draughts of them to the 
Royal Society, together with a few curfory obfervations 
upon them, which may, perhaps, prove not altogether 
1 unacceptable 
