Interesting Coins from Europe

[OttoM]

A few observations:

1. They have the name of the Creator on these coins, and they seem to originate from Europe. Some of the coins use passages from Scripture. For example, “under the shadow of his wings (psalm 91).

2. The dates on these coins are questionable. They don’t use the number “1” in the beginning. But instead they use the letter “i”. So for example, i587.




He made Gedansk a Royal City:











Today many Christians in Europe/America wouldn’t even recognize the Creator’s name, because it has been replaced by “LORD.” Our coins today don’t have Scripture or the name of the Creator.

 

[Mark C]

Can you highlight where "His Name" appears on some of those? Most of the images are not high enough resolution (for me at least to pick it out) to see what you are claiming.

 

[Mojo]

Can you highlight where "His Name" appears on some of those? Most of the images are not high enough resolution (for me at least to pick it out) to see what you are claiming.

I agree, but I think I see Hebrew letters at the top of the coins. I don’t read Hebrew so no clue as to what it says.

 

[Mark C]

I see it now, on some of them, at the very top. Thanks. It helped that I do the Sabbath Day teaching from a different building, which has a much bigger monitor.

BTW, it's "Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey," modern Hebraic characters, read right-to-left. And some of 'em are harder to read: the 'yod' normally looks just like an apostophe ( ' ) - but on a few of those above, it looks more like a " ? " (question mark). (See the big grey one at the near bottom, and the gold right above that.) The 'vav' on those is highly stylized, too...looks almost like a 'dalet' with vowel pointers. The grey "1587" coin is the easiest to see.

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(Sorry - this is the best I could find, there are better fonts...)

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[OttoM]

Can you highlight where "His Name" appears on some of those? Most of the images are not high enough resolution (for me at least to pick it out) to see what you are claiming.

Indeed, some are not high enough resolution, and hard to see. Here it is zoomed in:






Here’s another one that I found on eBay:

Hamburg 1803 Silver Medal City View Jehovah יהוה Germany German State Very Rare | eBay

ALL AFRICAN COUNTRIES EXCEPT SOUTH AFRICA.

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The Creator’s name is on top. At the bottom - that’s “i803.” The “i” likely stands for Iēsous. But at the back of the coin - it just says “803.”

Here’s another one:

 

[Mark C]

Yes, very interesting, thanks. (And on several of them, the 'hey' is written as a 'chet' as well; i.e., no 'gap' in the top of the 'doorpost' character.)

 

[PeteR]

Yes, very interesting, thanks. (And on several of them, the 'hey' is written as a 'chet' as well; i.e., no 'gap' in the top of the 'doorpost' character.)

Probably more a result of poor or worn dies.

 

[OttoM]

For more evidence that these coins with the Creator’s name on them may actually be over a 1,000 years old - I found some German coins that clearly use the number “1” instead of an “i.” And the name of the Creator of course is nowhere to be found (which is the norm in our modern era).

Even in the 1560 Geneva Bible His name was replaced to “LORD.” Also, the 1611 KJV uses LORD as well. So it’s a bit odd to me that these European nations had coins between the 1500’s and 1800’s with His Name on them; but the Bible’s at the same time used LORD. Another thing - which I made a post about last year - a lot of these European nations’ day for Saturday is very close to Shabbat. For example, in Italy it’s Sabado. In Polish it’s Sobota. This points to the European nations keeping Saturday as sabbath at one point in their history, but obviously they’ve gone astray in our modern era.

German coin - 1861.



German coin - Hamburg - 1877.


Front:

Shows the year 1793. Back of the same coin:


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Back

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Back:

 

[Mojo]

Those buildings on the engraving are not 1000 years old.

Could the Hebrew writing be attributed to much of the banking in Europe being a Jewish enterprise?

 

[Mojo]

In Spanish, Sunday is Domingo and Italian, it is Domenica. This is in reference to Lord, or Lord’s day.

It is interesting how close to Shabbat that Saturday is in those other languages.