As to the Samaritan, I own they bear a good resemblance one to another, and that they differ very much from those Samaritan characters, which we find stamped upon divers truly Ancient and Genuine Coins. But then there seems to be such a Resemblance (as to the Character) between those Coins struck in Ages far distant from one another, that ’tis hard (from the Consideration of the Metal its Fabrick, Weight, from the Shapes of the Letters in the Inscription, &c) to say which Coin was made in the time of David, or Solomon, and which no older than the time of the Machabees; this being rather to be gathered from the Words and Meaning of their Inscriptions, than from the Figure of the Characters which Compose them. The same may be said, in a great measure, of the old Greek, Punic, Roman, Brittish and other Coins.