[174] See Plate xxxi. Fig. 3. [175] See the Phœnician Numerals in Plate xxxii. [176] _Philosoph. Transact._ Vol. xlviii. Par. ii. p. 726. [177] _De Num. quibusd. Sam. et Phœn. &c. Dissert._ p. 59-61. & Tab. II. Oxon. 1750. [178] See Plate xxxi. Fig. 4. [179] Haym, ubi sup. p. 107. [180] See Plate xxxi. Fig. 5. [181] See Plate xxxi. Fig. 5. [182] Honor. Arigon. _Num. Phœnic._ Tab. I, II. Tarvisii, 1745. [183] Id. ibid. Tab. I. N. 5. [184] See Plate xxxi. Fig. 6. [185] See p. 793, 794. [186] See plate xxxi. Fig. 7. [187] See Plate xxxi. Fig. 8. [188] _Recherches Curieuses des Monoyes de France &c. Par_ Claude Bouterouë, p. 33. A Paris, 1666. [189] See Plate xxxi. Fig. 9. [190] Honor. Arigon. ubi sup. Tab. I. Num. 2. [191] Claud. Bouterouë, ubi sup. p. 24. [192] See Plate xxxi. Fig. 9. [193] See Plate xxxi. Fig. 9. [194] _Mémoires de Litterature, tirés des Registres &c._ Tom. xxiv. p. 64. A Paris, 1756. [195] The whole note, here referred to, in the original runs thus. “J’avois lû ce Mémoire à l’Académie en 1749, je le communiquai dans le même temps à un étranger qui se trouvoit alors à Paris, & qui ayant passé tout de suite en Angleterre, fit part à un docteur d’Oxford de l’explication que j’avois donnée de la médaille de Jonathan. Ce dernier _m’a fait l’honneur de l’adopter_ dans une savante Dissertation imprimée a Oxford en 1750, à la suite d’une autre Dissertation sur deux inscriptions Phéniciennes.” _Mémoires de Litterature, tirés des Registres de l’Académie Royale des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, &c._ Tom. xxiv. p. 60. A Paris, 1756. For the better understanding of this note, it will be proper to observe, that the stranger therein mentioned was M. Brucker, Professor of History in the University of Basil; with whom I contracted an acquaintance when at Oxford, towards the close of March 1750. This gentleman then informed me, that M. l’Abbé Barthelemy communicated to him draughts of three Samaritan coins of Jonathan, prince and high-priest of the Jews. He added, that one of these exhibited the words ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ; which, according to him, M. l’Abbé Barthelemy interpreted of Alexander the Great, taking the piece to have been twice struck. This M. Brucker afterwards in a great measure confirmed, by a letter he wrote to me at Oxford; which I published intire in 1750, and endeavoured to prove, that the foregoing inscription was to be understood of Alexander I. king of Syria, and not of Alexander the Great. The Samaritan inscription, which M. Brucker only just touched upon, as is manifest from his letter, I likewise attempted to explain; producing proper vouchers, in support of what I advanced. Thus stands the fact, which seems to have given some offence to M. l’Abbé, stated in the most concise manner possible; and from it, thus stated, as I apprehend, are naturally deducible the following observations.