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Excerpt from On the Jewish Lulab and Portal Coins
Jewish numismatics - for there are such - bear eloquent testimony to the struggles and victories of the Jewish people from the Maccabaean period until, perhaps, after the destruction of the Second Temple. The coins which come within the scope of this study are invaluable records, inasmuch as they not only faithfully represent historical facts connected with personages and events, but also reflect, without distortion, their Sense and importance. In addition to this, such of them as bear dates furnish fixed and certain aids to chronology.
For two centuries those who presided over the Jewish mints issued coins with Hebrew legends for current use; Simon Maccabaeus and his successors, the Asmonaean princes and kings, in the beginning, and, afterwards, vari ous eminent personages at the time of the defection from Rome and of the great war under Vespasian, and perhaps even in later times. These last come under the denomination of coins of the Revolts. All these coins have acquired so great an importance that historians whose work extends over the period of their issue study them, and are com pelled to study them, and the public museums of all European States have zealously devoted their energies towards the acquisition of genuine specimens, for which payment is at times made to the extent of a thousandfold their intrinsic value. Jewish numismatics have at the present day become the subject of a study of itself.
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