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NEW PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATA ORIENTALIA. 
Edited by Epwarp THoMas, F.R.S. ; 
Vol. II., Part I. (Complete in itself), royal 4to. 
THE COINS OF THE JEWS) 
By FREDERIC W. MADDEN, M.R.A.S., M. Num. Soc., 
été Royale de la Numismatique Belge ; Foreign Corresponding Member of the 
d Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia ; Fellow of the Numismatic 
and Archzological Society of Montreal. : 
Illustrated with 270 Woodcuts (chiefly by the eminent Artist-Antiquary, the late 
F, W. FarIrHOLtT, F.S.A.), and a Plate of Alphabets. 
Associé Etranger de la Soci 
Numismatic an 
This Work embraces nearly all the original matter that has already appeared in the Author s 
“* History of Fewish Coinage” (1864), and its ‘‘ Supplement” (‘‘ Numismatic Chronicle” N.S. 
1874-1876), as well as the new critical corrections which bring the subject up to the knowledye 
of the present day. 
The object of the work is to give a full and detailed account of all that ts known of the 
Monetary System of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with engravings of every attainable 
specimen, as well as of the alphabet in use among the Yews and other nations cognate with then. 
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 conguest or 
superiority of art—upon the Fews. 
Chapter I. gives a full resumé of the early use of silver and gold as a medium of exchange 
and commerce among the Hebrews before the exile, illustrating the enployment of the precious 
metals in Egypt, Assyria, Phenicia, and Judea, as gathered from monuments and the text of — 
the Bible, together with illustrations of gold and ring-money, and the various expressions for 
money made use of in the Old Testament. 
Chapter IT, discusses the title to the invention of coined money and the various materials em- 
ployed for money, other than the precious metals, 
Chapter LIT. 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 difficult to read and 
often badly preserved—those of the Asmonean Princes Jrom B.C. 141 to B.C. 37. 
Chapter VT. deals with the coins of the Idumaean 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 IX. 
2s more especially devoted to the Roman coins struck in Palestine and Rome by the Emperors, 
commemorating the capture of Fudea ; and Chapter XI. gives an account of the coins struck at 
tilia Capitolina, the name given to Ferusalem, when it was rebuilt by the Emperor Hadrian. 
An Historical Commentary is, where needful, prefixed and interwoven with the purely 
Numismatic portion of the work. a 
There are three APPENDICES; the first relating to the ‘* Weights mentioned tn the Bible” ; 
the second tothe ‘“* Money in the New Testament’?’—the tribute-money, penny, farthing, mite, Sc. ; 
the third Surnishing a “ List of Works and Papers tn connection with Fewish Numismatics, 
published since 1849,” which will be of much value to the future student of Fewish coins, 
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