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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 7843950, member: 93416&quot;]Can anyone assist? I have been browsing this text from Richard Cumberland of 1685</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A35425.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A35425.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext" rel="nofollow">https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A35425.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i>“An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures &amp; weights, comprehending their monies, by help of ancient standards, compared with ours of England useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans, and the eastern nations” </i></p><p><br /></p><p>Centrally he finds (correctly) that there was an ancient Jewish Shekel which was near exactly half an Averdupois ounce, at c. 14.19g (219 grains)</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems he knows that was represented by a Tyre shekel/tetradrachm – but he apparently does not have access to one – but he deduces its weight from a couple of Carthaginian coins which he (again near correctly) judges used the same weight standard.</p><p><br /></p><p>However he also gets it from two other coins with what he calls “Samaritan” inscriptions. One of these he records as being in the Library of Charles I (!) and having been weighed by Archbishop Ussher (!!)</p><p><br /></p><p>So - I am trying to figure out what exactly this rather grand coin, once belonging to Charles I, would be? Perhaps a Phoenician silver?</p><p><br /></p><p>The most frustrating part is there is an illustration in the original text labelled “Samaritan Shekell” – but it is not reproduced in any of the online version I can find………..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A35425.0001.001/1:3?rgn=div1;vid=50948;view=fulltext" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A35425.0001.001/1:3?rgn=div1;vid=50948;view=fulltext" rel="nofollow">https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A35425.0001.001/1:3?rgn=div1;vid=50948;view=fulltext</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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