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The
Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum Collection - A
Ancient
Means of Exchange, Weights and Coins
Ya’akov
Meshorer
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The
200 page, bilingual (Hebrew/English) catalogue contains a detailed
discussion
of some 800 ancient means of payment, weights, and coins found in the
collection
of the Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa.
Discussion
of each of the 761 coins includes the historical background, reference
to patterns and their significance, and an explanation of inscriptions
on the coins. Obverse and reverse photographs of each coin are included.
The
Contents
of the Catalogue:
Ancient
Means of Exchange
Introduction
Metal
Ingots as Means of Exchange
Weights
Introduction
Weights
Used to Weigh Pre-Coinage Currency
Stone
Weights from Judah, Israelite II Period
Weights
from the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Coins
Introduction
The
Persian
Period: Persia, Greece, Phoenicia, Gaza and Carthage
Jewish
Coins
Coins
from the Early Hellenistic Period
Jewish
Coins Struck in Jerusalem under Ptolemaic Rule
Coins
Under Seleucid Rule
The
Hasmonaean
Coins
Coins
of the Herodian Dynasty
Coins
of the Roman Procurators in Judaea
Coins
from the Jewish War Against the Romans
The
Judaea
Capta Coins and Coins of the Roman
Administration
in Judaea between the Jewish War and the Bar-Kokhaba War
Coins
of Bar-Kokhaba War
City
Coins
from Eretz-Israel
Additional
Coins
Hoards
Catalogue
price: $50
(Including charge for
handling
and shipping abroad)
Please send us cash /
check
made payable to: Hecht Museum, University of Haifa
Address: Hecht Museum,
University
of Haifa, 31905 Haifa, Israel
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