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VIII. An Account of a Subceraied Denarius 
-of the Plaetorian Family , adorned with 
an Etrufcan lnfcription on the Reverfe y 
never before publifoed or explained. In 
a Letter to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. 
R . S. from the Rev. John Swinton, B. D „ 
F. R. S. Cuflos Archivorum of the Uni- 
verfity of Oxford, Member of the Aca- 
demy degli Apatifti at Florence, and of the 
JEtrufcan Academy of Cortona in Tufcany. 
Dear Sir, 
I. 
Head Feb. 27, p" 
1772. 
1 H E piece I have undertaken to con- 
fiderhereis afubaerated (fee Tab. II. 
n.i.) denarius of the Plastorian family, which lately fell 
into my hands. It exhibits on one fide a female head, 
reprefenting the goddefs Libera, or Proferpina, ac- 
cording to M. (1) Havercamp, before which Hand the 
letters posh y/> p COS INI, very ill preferved. On 
the reverfe, we difcover a bull: of the goddefs SORS, 
on a fort of bafis, adorned with the infcription 
F SOR ANT, or rather AN” ; under which, in the ex- 
ergue, appear the Etrufcan letters mMlfWriR, 
(1) Sig. Havercamp. Commentar . in Fam. Roman. Numifrn. 
Omn .& c . p. 313,314. 
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