Lovely Brand New HB Biblical Numismatics Coin Book

"Without question, this is the most beautiful book ever published on Biblical coinage."

A "must have" book for every collector of Biblical coins, Ancient coins, Historians, students of Roman, Greek, Judaic and Byzantine periods and the Bible itself.

This ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS book tells the story of the Bible world through coins and other means of exchange from Genesis through the end of the Roman Empire; including the four hundred years between the old and new testaments. There are 18 chapters broken down into old and new testaments:

•  Old Testament Period:
  • Before Coinage (Stone Shekel Weights)
  • Beginning of the Written Word (Cuneiform Tablet)
  • Artifacts (Abraham; Iron Age II; Tear Vial; Judean Oil Lamps)
  • First Coins ( Lydia; King Croesus; Aegina)
  • Persian Empire (Cyrus; Darius; Xerxes; Artaxerxes; Darius III;
    
• Interestamental Period:
  • Age of Greek Supremacy (Attica; Corinth; Boetia; Euboea; Sicily; Rhodes; Magna Graecia; Taras; Epidamnos Dyrrhachium; Ionia; Pergamum; Greek Pisidia; Cicilia)
  • Phoencia (Ascalon; Byblos; Sidon; Aradus; Tyre; Carthage; Greece Numidia)
  • Macedonian Conquest (Philip II; Alexander the Great; Philip III; Cassander; Demetrius)
  • Seleucid Kingdom (Seleucus; Antiochus I; Antiochus II; Antiochus III The Great; Antiochus IV; Demetrius I; Demetrius II; Antiochus VII; Cleopatra; Philip II)
  • Ptolemaic Dynasty (Ptolemy I & II;  Arsinoe II; Ptolemy IV-VI; Cleopatra VII
  • Roman Republic (Aes Rude; Pompey; Julius Caesar; Marc Antony)
  • Hasmonean Dynasty
    
• New Testament Period
  • Herodian Dynasty (Herod I --> Herod Agrippe)
  • Procurators of Judea (Coponius; Marcus Ambibulus; Pontius Pilate)
  • Revolt of the Jews (First Revolt; Second Bar Kochba)
  • Roman Empire (Caesar Augustus; Caligula; Claudius; Nero; Galba; Vespasian; --> Philip II; Constantine I)
    
• Byzantine Empire
  • Coins in the Life of Jesus Christ (The three wise men; Farthing; The Tribute penny; Widow's mite; Shekel of Tyre; the Tribure money)

This beautiful BRAND NEW hardback book was published Heritage Publishers Inc. in 2001. It is in clean, tight gorgeous condition!

There are 486 pages including 23 full color plates and an index to the plates. There is an exquisite picture of each described coin on almost every page. Each coin described has a picture included which describes the coin on both the obverse and reverse.  There are incredible color maps throughout the text.

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