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The monetary forerunners of coinage in Phoenicia and Palestine. Original Library/publisher: The Patterns of Monetary Development in Phoenicia and Palestine in Antiquity Proceedings of the International Numismatic Convention, Jerusalem, 1963. Ed.: A. Kindler. Tel-Aviv: Schocken, 1967
Coinage was first introduced into the economic life of Palestine during the sixth and fifth centuries b.c.e. as part of the extended growth of coinage in the Mediterranean world. The two oldest coins which have so far been found in Palestine were minted in Greece in the sixth century, one from Thasos, found at Shechem, and the second from Athens, found in Jerusalem.
The use of metal for currency defined by weight, and the use of a system of stone seals for identification, may have been combined in several instances to produce coinage as defined by Aristotle. The transition from currency to coinage has been made at least. twice in the first millennium B.C. in the east Mediterranean.
n M. Balmuth, " Monetary forerunners of coinage in Phoenicia and Palestine" in International numismatic convention: Jerusalem 27-31 December 1963, Tel Aviv 1967, 25-32. 12 As in the case quoted by Jenkins, see n. 8 above. 13 D. B. Stronach, Iran VII, I6: " Any cache that was being stored for its intrinsic value would almost certainly have included
Nov 8, 2018 · Balmuth M (1967) Monetary forerunners of coinage in Phoenicia and Palestine in Antiquity. In: Kindler A (ed) The patterns of monetary development in Phoenicia and Palestine in Antiquity, Jerusalem. Google Scholar Balmuth M (1971) Remarks on the appearance of the earliest coins.
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"usually understood [that] the electrum coins were highly overvalued," say Cahill and Kroll (2005, p. 613) (with minor rephrasing), by which they clearly mean highly profitable (see also Kroll 2008, p. 18, and 2012, p. 39). To the contrary, I will argue that highly profitable coinage is more of a hindrance than a help in interpreting early coinage.
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