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coins are fometlmes adorned with the initial letters 
of the narhes of towns, is a point that will admit of no 
difpute amongftthe learned. No one will refufe his 
affent to this, who is apprized, that it has been 
allowed by Sig. (i) Olivieri and Sig. (2) Avvocato 
Paderi, the two greatefl: proficients in Samnite, or 
Samnite-Etrufcan, literature that have hitherto ap- 
peared. What is now remarked has been alfo ob- 
ferved by Sig. Gori, in (3^ the very valuable work 
here referred to. 
Thefc pieces, however, are of a fpecies different 
from that of the coins of PapiusMutilus, Tiberius Ve- 
turius, and Ni. Luponius, of which I have largely treated 
in (4) fome of my former papers. The firfi; fpecies ap- 
pertains to cities, the other to the Samnite, or Italian, 
commanders, whofe names they bear, for the mod part,, 
on the reverfe. . Hence it feems, at firfi: fight, extremely 
probable, that the word safjnim, on the reverfe of 
Papius Mutilus’s medal, now before me, cannot be 
equivalent to sabini, the sabines, or samnites, 
THE SAMNITES, as fome (5) of the mofi: Celebrated 
(1) Una lettera del Sig. Olivier, al Sig. Abate Barthelemy^ Itfc. 
p. 29. In Pefaro, 1757. 
(2) Jo. Baptift. Pali’er. Pifaurenf. De Num. Etrufc. Pajlanor.. 
in Symb. Liiterar. Vo!. II. p. 30,31. Florcntice, 1748. 
(3) Anton. Francifc. Gor. Muf, Etrufc, Vol. II. p. 428. 
Tab. -cxcvr. cxcvii. Florentiae, 1737. 
(4) Philofoph. Tranfabf. Vol. LII. Par. i. p. 28 — 39. Vol, 
LVllI. p. 253 — 261. & alib. 
(5) Annib. degli Abati Olivier. DiJJeriaz. fopr. ' alctot. 
Medagl. Sannit. in Sag. di Dijferlaz. Accadeniich. &c. di Carton... 
Tom. IV. p. 142, 146. in Roma, 1741. Scip. Maff. ap. An- 
nib. degl. Abaf. Olivier, ubi fup. Peller. Second Supplem. 
aux Rccueils des Medaill p. i— 14. A Paris, 1766. 
• VoL. LIX. K k k 
Etrufcaii. 
