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and more particular account of this curious piece 
to the confederation of that molt refpedtable body. 
And this I am the more inclined to do, as an explica- 
tion of the monogram here mentioned may not im- 
probably enable us to explain a legend on the reverfes 
of other antient (2) Roman coins, which has hi- 
therto been deemed by fome learned men almoft, 
if not altogether, inexplicable. 
II. 
The piece before me is a very antient, or rather 
an original, quinarius, extremely well prefervec(*_ 
It has on one fide a female head in an helmet, 
with the letter v behind, handing for five, the 
number of afles it contains *, and on the reverfe 
Cajior and Pollux , or, according to Sig. oli- 
vieri, two Cajlors , on horfeback, with feven ftars 
over each of their helmets, or caps. In the exergue 
we difcover the word roma, formed of very antient 
chara&ers y and under the belly.of one of the horfes the 
monogram, which diflinguifhes this quinarius from 
all the other fimilar pieces that ever fell under my 
view or obfervation. Nor have I ever met with it 
in any author I had occafion to confult, or perufe, 
To me therefore it cannot but appear in the light of 
an inedited coin. K ■ 1 : 
III. 
The Romans firfi: coined filver money, according 
to (3) Pliny, with whom (4) Livy, in this point, 
(2) . Joan. Baptift. Biancon, de antiq. litt. Hebrrnr. et Grescor . 
Libel., p. 74, 75. Bononias, 1748. 
(3) Ph n * Nat. Hiji. Lib. xxxiii. cap. 3. 
(4} Liv. Ept. Lib. xv. 
agrees. 
