Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 46
xtend to the periodof Cleopatra, of whom we have portraits on very fine coins (PlateXL, Figure 1). III. ffiohwge of ttje letD0. Although our earliest records of the use of money are foundin the Hebrew sacred writings, we have no reason to supposethat the inhabitants of Palestine had any coined… … JEWISH SHEKEL. well assured that they had no coin of their own bearing a nation-al device until after the captivity. The silver shekel has now become quite common in collec-tions. A few years ago it was very rare. But within the pastfive years a large number of them have been found at…
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