Hecht A (Hecht Collection A)

Meshorer, Y. Ancient Means of Exchange, Weights and Coins. The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum Collection A. (Haifa, 1998).



The 200-page, bilingual (Hebrew/English) catalog contains a detailed discussion of some 800 ancient means of payment, weights, and coins found in the collection of the Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa

Contents of the Catalogue:

Ancient Means of Exchange
Introduction

Metal Ingots as Means of Exchange

Weights
Introduction
Weights Used to Weigh Pre-Coinage Currency Stone Weights from Judah, Israelite II Period
Weights from the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

Coins
Introduction
The Persian Period: Persia, Greece, Phoenicia, Gaza and Carthage
Jewish Coins
Coins from the Early Hellenistic Period
Jewish Coins Struck in Jerusalem under Ptolemaic Rule
Coins Under Seleucid Rule
The Hasmonaean Coins
Coins of the Herodian Dynasty
Coins of the Roman Procurators in Judaea
Coins from the Jewish War Against the Romans
The Judaea Capta Coins and Coins of the Roman
Administration in Judaea between the Jewish War and the Bar-Kokhaba War
Coins of Bar-Kokhaba War City Coins from Eretz-Israel
Additional Coins
Hoards

Also see:
Hecht Collection B

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