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or rather FVR, ANTIE, /. e. FORS, FORTVNA, 
or SORS, ANTII, or ANTIAT, equivalent to the 
Latin infcription above it. The Etrufcan elements 
Teem rather better preferved than the Latin. The 
coin is, however, in but indifferent confervation, 
though pretty much of the thin filver plate remains 
Rill upon it. I mufl not omit obferving, that it has 
never yet been communicated to the learned world. 
II. 
The fymbol on the reverfe here is the fame that 
occurs on the reveries of two or three (2) other con- 
iular coins of the Plaetorian family, with the Word 
SORS attending it. The Latin infcriptioh, on the 
piece before me, is extremely fimilar to one upon, 
a denarius of the Ruftian family, now in my final! 
colle&ion, a draught of which may be feen in the 
plate (3) here referred to. The fymbol there is a 
double Fortune, or rather two galeated Fortunes, 
■which were confidered as deities by the Romans. 
The divinity SORS, on the coins of thePlaetorian fa- 
mily, fimilar to mine, is afferted by (4) Vaillant and 
Havercamp to be the SORS, or rather one of the 
SORTES, worshiped in the temple of the SORTES 
-at Praenefle ; whereas it was the SORS, or rather 
one of the SORTES, adored in the temple of thofe 
deities at Antium, as we find demonffratively proved 
t>y the coin I am attempting to explain. The wholte 
(2) Sig. Haverc. in Tam. Platou Tab. I. n. 1, 2, 3. 
• (3) See Tab. II. n. 2. 
(4) I. Vaill. Nuvi. Antiqu. Familiar. Romanar. p. 238, 235, 
240. AnsfteJjedami, 1703. Sig. Haverc. Comment . (Ac. p. 324. 
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