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as the delicacy of the owner would permit him j 
for he would not fufFer them to be touched, as fear- 
ing left fome damage might infue from too near an 
infpeefion. However the Gentleman acquainted 
him, that they were both equally falfe ; one being 
rough caft from a filver one, and the other carefully 
repaired, fo as to give it fome appearance of a genu- 
ine coin, when compared with the former, which 
it would not have, if viewed by itfelf: that the 
reverie was bonae spei : and that fuch as they 
were, the owner would not part with them upon 
any confideration But upon the death of Mr. 
Veiflleres the examination of thofe medals became 
more cafy, and ferved only to confirm the judge- 
ment given of them j and the intire colledion was 
Joid for little more than the weight. 
At length, in the month of July 1748, Mr. de Boze 
had frefh incouragement to purfue his inquiry 5 which 
he did with greater attention, and better fuccefs, than 
before. A barefooted Carmelite of the convent of 
Tar is fhewed him a letter, which he had received from 
one of his own order at MarJ'eilles , who lately arrived 
from the Levant (1), where he had been imployed as a 
mifiionary. His correfpondent acquainted him, that 
he had a gold medal of Tefcenniits, which the 
curious at Marfeilles were deitrous to purchafe, and 
had offered him a confiderable fum for it ; but as 
he hoped to get more at Taris , efpecially if it was 
not in the King’s cabinet, he defired him to let him 
know that, as likewife what value Mr. de Boze put 
upon 
( 1 ) Le P. Elizee de St. Beneijl. 
