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XL Some Obfervations upon an inedit ed 
Greek Coin of Philiftis, ^ueen of Sy- 
racufe, Malta, and Gozo, who has been 
pa fed over in filence by all the ancient 
Writers. In a Letter to Mathew Maty, 
M. D. Sec. R. S. frc?n the Rev. John 
S win ton, B. D. F. R.S. Cuftos Ar'chivorum 
of the Univerfity of Oxford, Member of the 
Academy degli Apatifti at Florence, and 
of the Etrufcan Academy of Cortona in 
- Tufcany. 
I. 
S I R, 
Read March H E antient piece I propofe to con- 
i,1,/0 ' JL fider (fee Tab. V. n. i.) here has a 
place affigned it in the very valuable (i) collection of 
the Reverend and learned Mr. Godwyn, Fellow of 
Balliol College, Oxford, who has been pofielTed of it 
feveral years. It exhibits on one fide the fame veiled 
head of a woman that occurs on a coin of Gozo, by me 
(2) heretofore defcribcd; and on the other the figures 
forming the type, or fymbol, on the reverfeof that coin. 
Before the face of the veiled head, on Mr. Godwyn’s 
piece, the Greek word BALIAILXAX prefents itfelf 
to our view j and on the reverie the name $IAIE- 
(1) This very valuable colleclion is now depofited in the 
Bodleian Library, Oxon ; Mr. Godwyn, who died in April, 
1770, having bequeathed his noble library, and rich cabinet of 
antient coins, to the Univerfity of Oxford. 
(2) Philofoph. TranfaU. Vol. LVIfl,p. 261, 262. 
TIAOI, 
