The Numismatic Journal, Volume 1E. Wilson, 1837 - Numismatics |
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Page 214 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Page 37 - ... paid : the king having erected a mint at Shrewsbury, more for reputation than use, (for, for want of workmen and instruments, they could not coin a thousand pounds a week,) and causing all his own plate, for the service of his household, to be delivered there, made other men think, theirs was the less worth the preserving.
Page 59 - Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.
Page 141 - the penny was wont to have a double cross with a crest, in such sort that the same might be easily broken in the midst, or into four quarters.
Page 152 - Tea, the staple by which grocers now make gross fortunes, had not then obtained its footing ; for this lymph must then have been beyond the means of most sippers, seeing that, in 1666, a pound of tea cost sixty shillings ; and money was then at a far higher value than in the present century. The multifarious ramifications of these traders justified the application of the term "grocers," as well as to those "engrossing" merchandise, because they sold by the gross.
Page 89 - Romans (iii. 9), that when the town of Joppa was destroyed by Cestius, the inhabitants, driven by famine, sought refuge by sea, the Romans having destroyed the neighbouring towns and villages. They built vessels (oKdcpr|) and committed piracies on the shores of Syria, Phoenicia and Egypt.
Page 145 - I will venture to say," he continues, " that their workmanship is always utterly contemptible, and that not one purpose of taste, information, or curiosity, can be drawn from them.
Page 274 - This night are come out new farthings, weighing a quarter of an ounce, fine pewter, which is but the price of new pewter, that so the people may never hereafter fear to lose much by them; with the harp on one side, and a crosse on the other, with TK above it.
Page 155 - Faldos ; and there are abundant traces of them in the registers, deeds, and records of the borough. William, the issuer of the token before us, was of the then important business of a grocer ; and there is direct evidence that he was a man of substance. He became chamberlain of the corporation in 1648, bailiff in 1651, and mayor in 1652. He was exceedingly diligent in the aldermanic courts, and was re-elected to the chair in 1664, but died before his period of office had expired, and was buried in...
Page 89 - ... the coast of Joppa, and they were exterminated. Soon after this they were defeated on the Lake of Gennesaret, their barks being unable to cope with the war-like vessels of Vespasian. To these events, and most probably to the first, the legend Judcea Navalis must allude, Titus, as is well known, having accompanied his father in the Judaic war.