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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Moishi Cohen, post: 8303931, member: 92389&quot;]This is a pre coinage 7th century piece of Hacksilber and prior to when negative dies we’re invented to produce positive designs on metal, any markings on pre coinage Hacksilber we’re all done by chisel and hammer such as these 8th-7th centuries Hacksilber pieces that I’m showing you here.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The most famous examples are the “Bar Rakab” pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Inscribed weights were all done in the same way this was common practice, striking metal with an engraved die did not yet exist let alone in the Levant, it is common knowledge that in the event they were slow to adopt the idea of coinage and it was only starting to be adopted by the late 5th century BC, most earlier coins dating to the 6th–5th centuries BC that passed by through trade etc. are usually found chopped up just like any other piece of Hacksilber.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1469483[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1469484[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1469485[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1469486[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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