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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dajo, post: 4571963, member: 85272&quot;]No idea whether this has been done before, but it might be fun to make a list of different ancient languages (and their scripts) as we have it on coins in our collection. Let’s define ‘ancients’ here as any coin before 1000 AD. Please show a picture of the coin and tell a bit of the language on it, if you know about it. There were many old languages around, some of which made it on coins. Some even with scripts which are not yet fully deciphered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let’s start with the old Hebrew script on this Prutah of John Hyrcanus I, who was&nbsp; a Maccabean leader and Jewish high priest in the 2nd century BCE. He reigned Judea from 134 BCE until his death in 104 BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1131984[/ATTACH]</p><p>The script on this coin says:</p><p><br /></p><p>‘Yehochanan, the high priest, and council of the Jews’.</p><p><br /></p><p>David Jacobson shows in his book <i>Antioch and Jerusalem – The Seleucids and Maccabees in Coins </i>shows that the script on this prutah resembles the paleo-Hebrew script of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Quite interesting to find it back on coins… [ATTACH=full]1131985[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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