Research Catalog

Title

Cultural change : Jewish, Christian and Islamic coins of the Holy Land, featuring coins from the Abraham D. & Marian Scheuer Sofaer Collection / David Hendin.

Author

Hendin, David

Publication

New York, NY : American Numismatic Society, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• American Numismatic Society (1907- )
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Description

xii, 128 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map, genealogical tables, portrait; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Jewish, Christian and Islamic coins of the Holy Land, featuring coins from the Abraham D. & Marian Scheuer Sofaer Collection

Subject

• American Numismatic Society (1907- ) > Exhibitions
• Abraham D. & Marian Scheuer Sofaer Coin Collection > Exhibitions
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York > Exhibitions
• Coins, Ancient > Palestine > Exhibitions
• Jewish coins > Exhibitions
• Islamic coins > Palestine > Exhibitions

Note

• "The volume serves as the ideal introduction to the coinage of the Holy Land, as well as providing a history of the region from the 4th century BC to Crusader times, illustrated by the coinage that was produced there. As such, it contains some of the earliest Jewish coins, as well as the earliest to bear overtly Christian symbolism."--American Numismatic Society website.
• "This book has been created to accompany the exhibit Cultural change : coins of the Holy Land, created by the Amerian Numismatic Society (ANS) and first shown at the Museum of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from May 2011 to February 2012. The exhibit has been created around the collection of Abraham D. Sofaer, who, with his wife Marion, has donated many of the coins to the ANS and the Israel Museum. The remainder of the collection is on long-term loan to the ANS at this time"--P. viii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-125).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Jewish history on coins -- Coins of the Maccabees -- Herodians and the Judeo-Christian tradition -- Sons of Herod -- Roman prefects and procurators -- The Jewish wars -- Coins that Jesus knew -- Christianity portrayed on coins -- Arabs in the Holy Land -- Islamic coins of the Middle East -- Coins of Jerusalem -- Gods, goddesses and monuments on city coins - Galilee and Samaria -- Judaea, Idumaea, and Philistia - Decapolis and Provincia Arabia -- Prices and values -- Map of the mints of the Holy Land -- Maccabee family tree -- Herodian family tree -- Biblical/Judaean coin synopsis.

ISBN

• 9780897223195 (pbk.)
• 0897223195 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 781498657
• SCSB-10117183

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library