The Numismatist, Том 8

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American Numismatic Association, 1895
Vols. 24-52 include the proceedings of the A.N.A. convention. 1911-39.
 

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Сторінка 69 - For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God : but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
Сторінка 17 - When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. 13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
Сторінка 78 - ... the director of the mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may cause the motto
Сторінка 131 - Some of the coins are of lower standard than any known before or since. Gold was reduced to one-sixth alloy, and silver to two-thirds alloy. N'o wonder the wits of that day said in reference to the new testons, or shillings: These testons look redde; how like you the same? 'Tis a token of grace; they blush for shame.
Сторінка 105 - ... while Betsey remained in the other. Jingle, jingle, went the shillings, as handful after handful was thrown in, till, plump and ponderous as she was, they fairly weighed the young lady from the floor. " There, son Sewell ! " cried the honest mintmaster, resuming his seat in Grandfather's chair, "take these shillings for my daughter's portion. Use her kindly, and thank Heaven for her. It is not every wife that's worth her weight in silver...
Сторінка 78 - Upon the coins there shall be the following devices and legends : Upon one side there shall be an impression emblematic of liberty, with an inscription of the word "Liberty" and the year of the coinage, and upon the reverse shall be the figure or representation of an eagle, with the inscriptions "United States of America...
Сторінка 165 - ... and shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold ; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north. So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
Сторінка 131 - On the obverse the king was represented standing in a ship with a sword in his right hand and a shield in his left. This was to betoken his naval supremacy. The reverse bore the inscription " IHC autem transiens per medium illorum ibat," no doubt in allusion to the preservation of the royal person throughout the battle.
Сторінка 80 - My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
Сторінка 47 - In the wild depth of Winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene ; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join, To cheer the gloom.

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