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infcription to which they appertained. I have, 
however, fince met with the [See Tab. II. 
n. 2.] fame coin, finely preferved, in the very 
valuable cabinet of the Reverend and learned 
Dr. Milles (*), Dean of Exeter, Prefident of 
the Society of Antiquaries,. ai>d Fellow of the 
Royal Society, with three letters, in the room of 
the two fuppofititious ones, upon it, perfectly 
formed; by the afliftance of which, I have been 
enabled to give the true reading of the infcription, 
and to arrive, I would flatter myfelf, at a full and 
complete interpretation of it. In order,, therefore, 
to rectify, all former mistakes, arifing from the 
injury received by the three laft elements from 
time, I fhall now beg leave to tranfmit this fhort 
paper to you, to be laid before the Royal Society ; 
not doubting but it will meet with the fame can- 
did acceptance, the fame favourable reception, 
with which my other papers have been honoured, 
through the whole courfe of my correfpondence with 
you and two of your predeceflbrs, from that very 
learned and moil ill uftrious body. 
(*) Towards the clofe of May, 1771, the Dean fent mea 
draught of the Samnite coin conlidered in this, paper, very ac- 
curately taken ; foon after which, the original infcription on 
the reverfe of the medal, by an unlucky accident, was totally 
defaced. However, by the afliftance of the draught fent me, 
and my fimHar coin, on which the remains of the three in- 
jured letters were rendered more vifible, by the help of a 
pretty good glafe, and an attentive comparifon of them with 
the correfpondent elements on the draught the Dean com- 
municated to me, the infcription exhibited by my medal, as 
well as the other given here, approaches the truth as near as 
poffible. 
II. 
