ON THE COINS INSCRIBED

OYEPBIANDN

( Kilrait du Numûmalic Chronicle (d. s., Ioidc 110, 1^63, p. IS6.)

'I'li<< iliscovery oî an unpublishcd Dame of city on a numismuiii' tiioDumcnt is always a matter of înteresting- inquiry and iisi'tnl 'liitcussion. Tlio tinte is paat when Sestini and Mionnet cnul'l ;ill'iU'd in every volume of Uieir publications, a number oi iio>\ gt'o^raphical appellations; and our best Uianks are iluf 1" Mr. Cliui-cliill Babington, for his attempt to elucidate [Uf I. ;:<'iii] on tiio hvo brass coins reading OTEPBIANHN.

Itiit t'von afti'r tb(> advancoa made by so learaed a scbolar, tlu'iv >iill ivmuins itonio doubl about Ifae possibilîty of fiadin^ « ttivi<l> logrml on a coin struck in a place situaled between Si.«i'i'( 'l'id Sii-miuiu, uioiv thaï) lue hundred miles weslward titmi \ iiiiinui'iiini, in an cntiroly Latin countrr.

\iiil liii'Ilun-, \vo luay traco some éléments of uncertainty lit ili' iiUbtu'ily of l'tolemy alluded lo; as n~e find in the t(ot. 'I'» of Anioniiiiiii, as woll as in tbe Itinerarium Bieittv'/', ' ' '"tHffi, thi' nainv VEREIS wrilten io varions ma- DUm'i<|>i'> VIRCIS. VERICIS. in «ccordance nith the modem %,\vn\ Hi.v», id('»tili*'d by Roii-hardt. It may be very easily Hit>l>'>->it'ii>l how, in tlio coturso of âges, «ud br the mère

«Ht I ii)iï>tHko or waiit of attention, BEPEIC or BEPKIS

ntli) tt.tw «muiuihI th«> fonu BEPBIS imder the pen of a