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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7533132, member: 19463"]In most cases, this is my attitude on the matter. Some c/m's are associated with a ruler such as the Seleucid anchor below.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1300665[/ATTACH] </p><p>Some may indicate a religious use like the Ba'al (Luy is Aramaic for Ba'al) bull below. Was the coin certified sacred and acceptable for sacrifice? I have no idea. This is a common c/m from this region so my guess is that it was associated with the temple but that is a guess and exactly what it meant would be yet another guess. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1300666[/ATTACH] </p><p>That leaves c/m's that may or may not have belonged to some authority or to some merchant used for some purpose on which we can only guess. The problem is that when someone guesses in a book they are writing, someone else will quote it as fact. Maybe it is. Maybe not.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1300667[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7533132, member: 19463"]In most cases, this is my attitude on the matter. Some c/m's are associated with a ruler such as the Seleucid anchor below. [ATTACH=full]1300665[/ATTACH] Some may indicate a religious use like the Ba'al (Luy is Aramaic for Ba'al) bull below. Was the coin certified sacred and acceptable for sacrifice? I have no idea. This is a common c/m from this region so my guess is that it was associated with the temple but that is a guess and exactly what it meant would be yet another guess. [ATTACH=full]1300666[/ATTACH] That leaves c/m's that may or may not have belonged to some authority or to some merchant used for some purpose on which we can only guess. The problem is that when someone guesses in a book they are writing, someone else will quote it as fact. Maybe it is. Maybe not. [ATTACH=full]1300667[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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