Books
for Reading and Reference

OIL LAMPS OF THE HOLY LAND (HARD COVER)
by Noam Adler

Beautifully illustrated collection of more than 1,000 ancient oil lamps in the Adler Collection of Jerusalem, which has been featured in an exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum. This is a remarkable collection of lamps from 2200 BC up to the Crusader Period.  180 pages.    US $ 75.00

NOT KOSHER: Forgeries of Ancient Jewish and Biblical Coins
by David Hendin

All of the more than 550 coins illustrated and discussed in this book are Not Kosher... in other words they are forgeries, often intended to deceive unwitting collectors. David Hendin has collected and researched these neglected forgeries for more than 35 years, and now makes his diagnostic methodology and huge database of photographs available to scholars, collectors, and dealers. Hendin writes: "When apparently legitimate college professors and scholars were prepared to authenticate, as genuine, ancient Jewish coins that even a beginning collector could identify as spurious, the time had come to document all those known fakes." Hardcover: 224 pages. $ 55.00

ANCIENT SCALE WEIGHTS and Pre-Coinage Currency
of the Near East
by David Hendin

--240 page 6 x 9 inch hardcover with 4-color dust jacket
--Culmination of more than 30 years of collecting and many years of research

More than 450 ancient weights and pieces of pre-coinage currency have been cataloged and described by David Hendin, author of the best selling Guide to Biblical Coins, Not Kosher: Forgeries of Jewish and Biblical Coins, Collecting Coins, and many other books. No collection of ancient weights of this breadth and depth has ever been published in a single volume. It contains more than 100 pages of Hendin’s never-before-published material about weights and pre-coinage currency, based on the examples in his collection. He consolidates a great deal of relevant scholarship, with extensive references, and places it in a context most useful to non-specialists. This book is an essential reference for curators, field archaeologists, collectors, biblical historians, and others who would like to understand the evolution and use of pre-coinage currency and ancient scale weights of the Near East. 
                               US $ 65.00