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even from the very beginning of their ftate; whereas 
they feem to have had little or no intercourfe with 
the other, when the piece in queftion was coined. 
It remains, therefore, that what 1 advanced, (12) in 
the paper here referred to, is clearly and indubitably 
true. 
VI. 
From the explication of the monogram, on the 
reverfe of the coin in queftion, we may perhaps 
difcover the interpretation of the word romano, on 
certain antient coins, which has hitherto not a little 
embaraffed the learned. For as it appears from my 
quinarius, that the Romans impreffed the word ro- 
manoro, for rom anorvm, as well as Roma, on 
fome of their moft antient ( 1 3) coins; we may either, 
with Sig. b 1 an coni (14), take no in romano for 
an earlier termination of the mafcul ne genitive cafe 
plural, or make it to hand for romanoro, or ro- 
manorvm, and confequently look upon it as a mu- 
tilated gentile name. The latter of thefe opinions, 
( 1 2) Philofoph. Tranfaft. ubi fup. 
(13) The antient coins of cities not feldom exhibit the gentile 
names, or thofe of the citizens, inftead of the names of the places 
themfelves; fuch names being frequently found in the genitive 
cafe plural, as here, on the reveries of thofe coins. Of thi3 
SMYPNAmN, GESZAAONIKEnN, SMYRNAEORVM, THESS ALONI- 
CENSIVM, PAISTANO, for PAIS T ANORVM, SVESANO, for SVE- 
s anorvm, as here, are fufficient proofs, to omit many other 
fimilar inftances that occur, and might, with equal facility, 
be produced. Vid. Joan. Vaillant. Num. Imperat . Augujiar. 
Ctefcjr. iAc. Amftelodami, 1700. Joan. Bapt. Biancon, ubi 
fup. aliofque quam plurim. feriptor. pa(T. 
(14) Joan. Bapt. Biancon, ubi fup. 
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