Coin Gallery

Parable Of The Talents

An engraved depiction of The parable of the talents from the New Testament Book of Matthew 25:14-30, circa 1700. The parable tells of three servants, each entrusted with varying sums of money (the talents), who either put their money to work, or in the case of the third, lazy servant, simply bury it for safe keeping. The scroll at the top of the image is a dedication to the sponsor of the illustration, William Penn (1644 - 1718). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Phoenician coins and writing

Phoenician coins. Engraving depicting various coins and medals from the Phoenician civilisation. Phoenicia existed as a collection of city states in the coastal areas of modern day Lebanon and Syria. Its origins date back to about 2300 BCE (before common era), flourished through maritime trade around 1200-800 BCE and declined from about 500-65 BCE. Their coins were made of gold and were freely traded with other civilisations such as the Greeks. Phoenicia gave rise to a written alphabet (upper line of text), a phonetic alphabet thought to be the origin of all western alphabets. Beneath this is a line in Hebrew. This engraving comes from the Gentleman's Magazine published in 1760

© Todd-White Art Photography

Old Chinese Copper Qing Dynasty Money Coins, Panjuan Flea Market, Beijing, China

Old Chinese Copper Qing Dynasty Money Coins, Panjuan Flea Market, Beijing, China. Panjuan Flea Curio market has many fakes, replicas and copies of Chinese products. Chinese would tie money together to hide it before there were banks

© William Perry / Danita Delimont

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