Southwick, near Oundle,
Jan. 1st. 1852.
SIR,--In Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, vol. 2. p. 379,
there is a coin illustrated thus: "5. supposed ancient Jewish coin,
representing drums." Kitto gives his authorities at the end of the
article on Musical Instruments.
[Illustration]
Allow me to give the figure of the coin, and its interpretation:
Read from left to right, the letters, or rather words, are: S F T R Ch
N: in Turkish it reads, _The Boundary of the Turks_; and the two drum
sticks ! are the pillars of Hercules, or the Calpe columna, and the
Abyla columna.--_N.B._ The _S_ (for _sh_) is a Cuneiform letter.