iVo 
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ACRE. 
CHAT, entrance of his palace, has also been con- 
sr ' structed with materials from those Ruins. 
Medals of 
Are and 
Sidon, 
We were, as usual, diligent in our inquiries, 
among the silversmiths of ^cre, for medals and 
antique gems; but could neither obtain nor 
hear of any. The most antient name of the 
city, AKH, has been observed upon small bronze 
medals found in this country, but they are 
extremely rare ; and as it was annexed to the 
government of Sidon, in the earliest periods of 
its history, perhaps no silver coinage of^ce 
ever existed. Even the bronze medals are not 
found in our English cabinets '. The Sidonian 
medals, although better known, are not com- 
mon. There is one, of matchless beauty and 
perfection, in the Imperial Collection at Paris'. 
Those of Ptolema'is have only been observed in 
bronze : they exhibit the bearded head of Jupiter 
crowned with laurels, and, for reverse, a figure 
of Ceres, with the legend 
nXOAEMAlZIEPAZKAIAZYAOY 
(1) An engraved representation, taken from one of these bronze 
medals, has been placed at the head of this Chapter, to facilitate the 
researches of future travellers ; together with another from a large 
silver medal of Sidon, to the government of which place, /Jce, as wf •! as 
the modern town oi Acre, seems always to have belonged, 
(2) See the Vignette to this Chapter. 
