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are to be confidered as part of the infcription fur- 
rounding the head of P efcennius . And it is well 
known, as Mr. de Boze obferves, that in many 
medals of the Roman emperors nothing is more 
common, than to find on the reverfe a continua- 
tion of thofe titles, which could not be contained 
on the fame fide with the head. But he thinks it 
has not been yet fufHcicntly attended to, that in- 
many medals of the cities in Lejfer Afia , and efpe- 
cially of thofe in Cilicia , where P efcennius was fir ft 
proclaimed, the title Pater patriae , which they ex- 
prefifcd by the two Greek letters 17 n, for Fleeing 
7ra1giFo5y is fcarcc ever placed in the circular in- 
fcription on either fide, but in the feild of the reveife. 
For which reafon he is inclined to beleive, that this 
medal was ftruck at Tarfus , the metropolis of Cilicia y 
where that praftice was more conftant, than in any 
other place. 
It would fcarce be worth obferving, he fais, that 
in the word Concordia the letter d is inverted after 
this manner a, fince fuch miftakes are very common 
both in antient and modern coins y was it not to 
prevent any imaginary fufpicion of its being done 
by defign, as emblematical of a pretended concord 
between the two emperors Septimius Sencerus and 
Pefcennius Niger. But this he fhews to be highly 
improbable on the following accounts. Firft, that 
it is wholly inconfiftent with the elegancy, grandeur, 
and fimplicity of antient monuments ; and efpecially 
of thofe appointed by authority, which never ad- 
mitted of any kind of ridicule. Again, that it is 
a manifeftabufe of the language of medals to ima- 
gine, that when they exhibit the name or figure of 
any 
