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verfe, to the pomponian family, and afterts them to> 
have been ftruck in the 533d, or 534th year of Rome. 
M. h a vercamp (25) feems inclined to adopt the fame 
fentiments. But neither the fize, weight, fabric, nor 
forms of the letters of mine will permit us to afcribe 
it to the Pomponian family, and affign it fo early a 
date j but determine ftrongly in favour of the Pom- 
peian, and, in conjunction with what has been ad- 
vanced by havercamp (26), evince it to have been; 
ftruck by quintus pompeius, the grandfon of 
pompeius rufus and sulla, a little after the 
(27) middle of the feventh century of Rome. I could 
expatiate more largely upon this very valuable piece, 
which is tolerably well preferved, did not the in- 
tended brevity of this paper reftrain me, and oblige 
me now to conclude ; which I fhall therefore beg 
leave to do, with affuring you that I remain, 
s 1 r. 
Your moft humble, 
and moft obedient fervant, 
Chrift-Church, Oxon.. 
0<ft. 18, 1773. JOHN SWINTON, 
(25) Sig. Haverc.. Comment, p. 340. Amftelodami, 1734.. 
(26) Idem ibid. p. 342. 
(27) Sig. Havercamp. ubifup. p. 342. 
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