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Greek coin, (30) Tome difcoveries may be made ; 
which will probably be looked upon as no inconflde- 
rable acquiiition both to the fcience of antient medals 
and antient hi dory, by thofe who are the mod pro- 
per and competent judges of the affair. The commu- 
nication of this, then, 1 would flatter myfelf, will by 
no means prove unacceptable to the Royal Society j 
who have always been ready to countenance and pro- 
mote difcoveries in (31) every branch of fcience and 
(30) I fay fome difcoveries may be made ; as the fix following 
points, never hitherto difeovered, feem clearly and naturally 
deducible from what has been advanced in this paper, i. The 
coins of Gozo by me formerly explained, as well as all other 
fimilar pieces, are to be reputed proper Phoenician, not Punic, 
coins. 2. They are Phoenician medals of queen Philiftis, and were 
confequently {truck in that princefs’s reign. 3. Philiftis was 
probably queen of Syracufe, as well as of Malta and Gozo. 
4. The two iflands laft mentioned were, in all likelihood, de- 
pendencies of Syracufe, when the coins in queftion firft appeared. 
5. Philiftis was anterior to Dionyfius I. king of Syracufe, and 
feems to have lived about 430 years before the birth of Christ. 
6. The Greeks and Phoenicians jointly occupied the iflands of 
Malta and Gozo, during that princefs’s reign. Other curious 
particulars may probably hereafter tranfpire from Mr. Godwyn’s 
moft valuable inedited Greek coin, when it has been farther 
examined, and compared with other medals of Philiftis, by the 
learned. 
(31) To what is faid here, I muft beg leave to add, that the 
Royal Society feem to have a peculiar right to this paper ; as 
they did me the honour to publifh two others, upon two Phoe- 
nician coins of Gozo, together with draughts of thofe coins, 
in the laft volume of the * Philofophical Tranfaflions. 1 formerly 
took thefe coins, and all others fimilar to them, with + Sig. 
Abate Venuti, to belong to the ille of Malta j having been led into 
that miftakc by his % diflertation upon them, and hindered from 
Philofopb. Tran fail. vnl. LVII 1 p. 235, ■> j] r ** - 
t Ridolf-n. Veuut. ubi [up. 
t Id, ibid. 
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