The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . 7), while the coins struck by Bar-cochab (A. D. 131-13 1 I,during the second and last great revolt of the Jews, in the reign of theEmperor Hadrian (see illustrations facing page 561), may properly besaid to be the last Jewish national coins made. Before the introduction of coined money into Greece by Pheidon,King of Argos, (between 770 and 730 B. C.,) there was a currency olspits or skewers. It seems probable that they were nails of incopper, capable of being used as spits in the Plomeric fashion. Th< reare two accounts
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . 7), while the coins struck by Bar-cochab (A. D. 131-13 1 I,during the second and last great revolt of the Jews, in the reign of theEmperor Hadrian (see illustrations facing page 561), may properly besaid to be the last Jewish national coins made. Before the introduction of coined money into Greece by Pheidon,King of Argos, (between 770 and 730 B. C.,) there was a currency olspits or skewers. It seems probable that they were nails of incopper, capable of being used as spits in the Plomeric fashion. Th< reare two accounts relative to the invention of coined money—one thaiit was first struck in ^Egina, the other that it was due to the Lydiana; * Levit. xviii. 3 seq.; Numb. iii. 45 seq. 2 Levit. xxvii. 11 seq. :i Deut U. 8, 8;xiv. 26. 4 Ex. xxi., xxii. 5 Ex. xxx. 13,15; xxxviii. 26. 6 Levit. v. 15. t Numb. iii. 45 seq.: xxviii. 15 seq. 8 1 Sam. ix. 7seq. »2KiHgSi • Gen. xli. 42. Gen. xxlr. 22. » 3 K 729 730 ^EGINETAN and greek
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