From this blog.
From this blog.
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These pictures strongly indicate that these are NOT coins, as the word is commonly used. The first coins were standardized and officially verified pieces of Metal, gold silver, electrum, copper/bronze, a.s.f. of a given weight, for example, a shekel, or for that matter, a deben. These are all different sizes, are of all different materials; no two are alike. Not a very good monitary model.
Might they have been used in commerce? Possibly, rather as the Old Norse used their silver arm rings as spare change, cutting off and weighting pieces to spend as needed.
Nor would I place a lot of weight on the fact that one of the jewels has the name of Joseph inscribed on it, since it is paired with a name that is not Egyptian. What is the date supposedly enscribed on this item? What other evidence on this item links it with the Biblical Joseph?
What is the archeological context and provinance of this item?
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