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Astronomical Symbols on Ancient and Medieval Coins

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 | #3327945 in Books |  Mcfarland |  2012-04-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.90 x.60 x6.90l,.88 | File type: PDF | 232 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| What all those little marks mean|By Simcha L. Kuritzky|The author gives a plausible explanation for what all the little symbols on medieval coins mean, but he has no hard evidence. While I don't doubt that a sun in eclipse may look like a circle, that doesn't prove that replacing stars with circles on a coin is related to an eclipse.|3 of 3 people found the following review h| |"Marshall Faintich scores gold...remarkable...analyses are highly detailed...This is a book not to be read in a hurry. It is one to be savoured and digested at leisure" --Auckland Astronomical Society Journal|About the Author

The coins of ancient and medieval Europe provide unique insights into the economic and political history of their period. In a time when few members of the population could read or write, the symbols depicted on coins offered a medium for communication, propaganda, and historical archiving. This work hypothesizes that astronomical symbols on ancient and medieval coins were often used as a way to record actual celestial events. The author provides more than 550 figures an...

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