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before these relics are indiscriminately mixed chap. 
together, or classed according- to the cabmet ■ -^- • 
notions of untravelled antiquaries ; for by so 
doing, much of the confusion caused by their 
writings might be avoided'. The particular 
symbol that might be said to predominate 
among the medals found here, was that of a 
radiated female Aeac/,, represented in front; and 
upon the obverse side, a warrior, leaning with his 
right arm upon his right thigh, his right foot 
being elevated and supported by a pedestal ; the 
same figure also holding in his left hand a spear. 
Such medals we often found in Boeotia ; but 
never with any legible inscription. We obtained 
at Neocorio two very remarkable bronze coins, 
having a beautiful full face in front of each, 
differing from the former ; and upon their ob- 
verse sides was the letter <t> in a chaplet or 
wreath of laurel. Perhaps these are medals of 
Phocis; but being found upon this spot, it is 
possible that they might belong to Phria, and 
that an antient town of this name once stood 
(2) For examples of errors thus introduced into Numismafic history, 
the reader may be referred to the splendid description of the Hunterian 
Collection by Combe, where the medals of Amphipolis are assigned 
to Lesbos, and those of jEgina to ^gium. Vid- Num. Vet. Pop. et 
Urb. S{c. Caroli Combe, p. 171. Tab. 33. etp. 12. No. I. i^c. Land. 
1782. 
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