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NEW PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATA ORIENTALIA. 
Edited by Epwarp Tuomas, F.R.S. 
In the press, Vol. I1., Part I, (Complete in itself), royal 4to, about 300 pages. 
THE COINS OF THE JEWS. 
By FREDERIC W. MADDEN, M.R.A.S., 
Member of the Numismatic Society of London; Associé Etranger de la Société Royale de la Numismatique 
Belge; Foreign Corresponding Member of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of 
Philadelphia ; Fellow of the Numismatic and Archzological Society of Montreal. 
Illustrated with 270 Woodcuts (principally by the eminent Artist-Antiquary, the late 
F, W. FarIrHOLrtT, F.S.A.), and a Plate of Alphabets. 
This Essay embraces all that has been published in the Author's “‘ History of Fewish 
Coinage’ (1864), and ‘*‘ Supplement to the same” (in ‘* Numismatic Chronicle” N.S. 1874-1876), 
and other papers not included in either of these works, thus bringing down the subject to the 
present day. 
The object of the work is to give a full and detailed history of all that ts known of the 
Monetary System of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with engravings of every attainable 
specimen, and of the alphabet in use among the Fews and other nations cognate with them. The 
plan of the work has also been so constructed, that it will be easy to refer to any one period and to 
ascertain what coins were then in circulation in Fudea, and to what extent the surrounding 
nations, whether Persians, Greeks or Romans, exercised their influence—either by conquest or 
superiority of art—upon the native population. 
Chapter I. gives a full account of the early use of silver and gold as a medium of exchange 
and commerce among the Hebrews before the exile, illustrating the employment of the precious 
metals in Egypt, Assyria, Phenicia, and Judea, as gathered from monuments and the Bible, 
with explanations of gold and ring-money, and the various expressions for money in the Ola 
Testament, 
Chapter II, discusses the title to the invention of coined money and the various materials em- 
ployed for money, other than the precious metals, 
Chapter ITI. reviews the question of ancient Fewish Paleography, and points out how the 
Semitic alphabets (especially the Fewish) were altered or modified during successive centuries. 
Chapter IV. refers to the money employed by the Fews after their return from Babylon until 
the Revolt under the Maccabees; and Chapter V. treats of a class of coins very difficult to read 
and often badly preserved—those of the Asmonaean Princes from B.C. 141 to B.C. 37. 
Chapter VI. deals with the coins of the Idumean Princes from the time of Herod I. (B.C. 37) 
to that of Herod Agrippa II. (A.D. 100). Much attention has been paid to the chronology of this 
period. 
Chapters VII. to XT. contain a history of the Fewish coinage during the period when Fudea 
may be strictly called a Roman province, with details of those specimens which were minted by the 
Procurators, and the money struck during the First and Second Revolts of the Jews. Chapter 1X. 
zs more especially devoted to the Roman coins struck in Palestine and Rome by the Emperors, 
commemorating the capture of Fudaa ; and Chapter XI. gives an account of the coins struck at 
Alia Capitolina, the name given to Ferusalem, when it was rebuilt by the Emperor Hadrian. 
An Historical Commentary is generally interwoven with the purely Numismatic portion of 
the work. 
There are three APPENDICES; the first relating to the ** Weights mentioned in the Bible” ; 
the second to the ‘* Money in the New Testament’’—the tribute-money, penny, farthing, mite, &c.; 
the third giving a ‘‘List of Works and Papers in connection with Jewish Numismatics, published 
since 1849,” which will be of much value to the future student of Jewish coins. 
London: TRUBNER & CO., Ludgate Hill. 
