The Old Testament rarely speaks of coins but mostly of weights of metals. Coins were invented shortly before the last Old Testament books were written. They illustrate important historical topics that set the stage for Jesus, Christianity, and the New Testament. In this section you will find:

• Lumps of metal
• Darius; oldest in exhibit
• Esther
• Ezra and Nehemiah
• Alexander the Great
• Tyre
• Antiochus IV Epiphanes
• Ptolemy VI
• Antiochus VI
• Rome

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