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HIPPOPOTAMUS. 
doubt that the hippopotamus was exhibited to the Roman 
people on the celebration of the Secular Games, and was 
considered by them as a rare and curious animal. 
We have thought proper to give the legend as it ought 
to appear on the coin in its perfect state : our specimen 
wants some of the letters ; and of those which remain, a 
few, ffom their obscurity, have been mistaken by the en- 
graver. In other respects the figure is a perfect fac simile 
of the original coin. 
