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XXIX. Some Account of a curious Coin, not described by the Writers on Gadir. In a Letter from the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and F.A.S. to the President

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I exhibit to your Lordship and the Society, a Coin never yet published, and not mentioned by any numismatic writer, of Gadir, in silver, weighing one hundred and twelve grains nearly, and in good preservation, and of fine workmanship. On the right side is a head of Hercules, such as we recognise easily to be the Gaditane, or Hercules of Gadir, now Cadix, or Cadiz. On the reverse is a lion passant, of great spirit, and under it ΛΙΒϒΩΝ, and over it the Phœnician Ghimel, or initial letter of Gadir. From all which it may be safely concluded, that this Coin was struck at Gades, by a colony from Africa, which Pliny tells us the Greeks called Lybia, in the beginning of his fifth book; ‘Africam Græci Libyam appellavere;’ and at Cadix, we well know, from a number of copper coins with Phœnician characters, that the Punic language was in use at that place. See an explanation of certain Phœnician coins in the cabinet of Mr. Duane, by L. Dutens, 4to. 1774.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1812

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page 272 note a Plate L No. 5.