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Title: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Angus, Joseph, 1816-1902 Hoyt, F. S. (Francis Southack), 1822-1912 Madden, Frederic W. (Frederic William)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Fagan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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y of thepresent day, where theSteam Coining-Press inthe U. S. Mint turns,. , . out from 60 to 90 coins Obverse die, Head of Emperor, and defaced inscription.—Stans. Reverse die, Victory advancing with trophy and palm-branch. per minute. In Assyria and Babylonia, clay tablets1commemorating grants of money speci-fied by weight, have been found in con-siderable numbers, and in Phoenicia, acountry most likely to have producedcoinage, no pieces of an antiquity earlierthan the Persian rule have hitherto cometo light. Though Phoenician inscriptions upon Assyrian bronze lion-weights, bearing dates of reigns 880 and 850 B. C, have beendiscovered, this was a precaution evidently taken by that race ofmerchants for purposes of traffic. The coins of the Phoenicians aerally stamped with emblems of the sea (coin, page 377); the above illus-tration showing a representation of tho Fish God of the Phcenicianfl,being found engraved on gems now in tho British Museum. 1 Sec illustration facing page 430.
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