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Weight, 22‘2 grs.
[Extracted from the Numismatic Chronicle.]
ON AN UNEDITED COIN OF ONE OF THE EARLY KINGS OF ABYSSINIA.
Frankfort on the Maine, bth November, 1845.
Dear Sir,— I have received through the medium of Mr. J. E. Gray, the impression of the small gold coin of an Abyssinian king, which I pointed out to you among the unclassed medals of the British Museum. Having examined this impression carefully, I think I can refer the coin to one of the rulers of Axum, a list of whom I published in the second volume of my Travels in Abyssinia.
There can be scarcely any doubt, that the coin in question dates its origin to the century in which Aphidas reigned in Axum, a.d. 530—542, its workmanship so much resembling the gold coin of this king I published in my