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Received July 8, i 75 p. 
LXI. An Attempt to elucidate two Samnitc 
Coins^ never before fully explained. In 
a Letter to Mathew Maty, M, D. Sec, 
R, S, from the Rev. John Swinton, B. D. 
F. R. S. Cuftos Archivorum of the Uni^ 
verfty of Oxford, Member of the Academy 
degli Apatifti at Florence, and of the 
Etrufean Acadetny Cortona in Tufeany. 
I. 
Good Sir, 
’Read Dec. 7,^ | 1 HE firR of the coins I propofe to 
1769. confider here is a Samnite dena- 
rius (fee Tab. XVI. n. i.) of Papius Mutilus, pub- 
liflied by Sig. Olivieri and M. Pellerin, with the word 
SAFINIM on the reverfe, in Samnite-Etrufean cha- 
radters ; an interpretation of which has, as I appre- 
hend, been ineffedlually attempted by the Marquis 
Scjpio MafFei, Sig. Olivieri, Sig. Avvocato PalTeri, 
and M. Pellerin. The other has the initial letter 
of the name of a town upon the reverfe, indicating 
the place where it was ftruck. For that Etrufean 
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