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upon it. His anfwer was, that he would certainly 
give a good price for it, if it was anticnt ; but that 
he could offer nothing, till he had feen it. The 
owner therefore brought him the medal, which was 
fair, well preferved, and free from any thing, which 
m ght occalion the leaft fufpicion ; fo that he valued 
it confiderably higher, than what had before been 
offered, and immediately purchafed it for the King. 
Soon after he fhcwtd it to the greateft connoif- 
feurs and moft curious perfons at Tans, who were 
charmed with the fight of fo valuable and unex- 
pected a medal in the Royal cabinet. And many 
both natives and foreigners being defirous of a 
draught of it, he ordered it to be ingraved 5 together 
with a Greek medallion in filver, no lefs rare in its 
kind, of the fame emperor, which is alfo in the 
lame cabinet, having been purchafed at London by 
Mr. Vaillant of Mr. Falkner (1), father of Sir 
Everard. A print of both thefe pcices accompanies 
this paper. See Tab. I. Fig. 3 and 4. 
The gold medal, Fig. 3. has on one fide the head of 
Tefcennius Niger crowned with laurel, with this le- 
gend, imp caes c pesc Niger ivstvs avg. And upon 
the reverfe, the godefs Concord, reprefented by a 
female figure Handing, with a diadem on her head, 
one of her hands elevated, and a double horn of 
plenty in the other 5 and round the figure only 
the word concordia. For the letters pp, placed 
below in the feild, on the two fidcs of the figure, 
being the ufual abbreviation of pater patriae, 
arc 
(1) See Numifm. Imp. 'Rom.praefl. p. 216. ed. 1696. 
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