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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-24-11 03:19 PM
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22. The middle of the bottom coin says "YHWH is God" (yyhwh 'lhm)
YHWH being God's proper name (possibly Yahweh, but we aren't really sure how the ancients pronounced the name since the Jewish people stopped saying it after the temple was destroyed, the vowel pointing for the name in all the texts is the vowel pointing for Adonai, which is often said instead of saying the name. Though sometimes they might say hashshem, which means "the name").

But I can't read the rest - they aren't standard Hebrew words, which makes me think they are some kind of prayer helping device (like an acronym mnemonic for a prayer) or otherwise have something religiously important/symbolic to offer.

The Star of David in the bottom one has two Hs and four Ds in the triangles of the star, which by themselves mean nothing, but I'm sure stand for something.

The "word" in the middle of the top coin is 'w'wwr' (the ' is a glottal, that thing that looks like an X is a silent letter). 'w'wwr' is not a word.

The letters around the coin are seemingly random stringing of glottals, w, h, ch, s, and r.

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