Volume 1

An historical inquiry into the production and consumption of the precious metals / By William Jacob.

  • William Jacob
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical inquiry into the production and consumption of the precious metals / By William Jacob. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Among the people with whom Job was con- nected, silver seems to have passed from hand to hand by weight, as money; whilst gold was appropriated like the onyx, the sapphire, cry- stal, pearls, topazes, rubies, and other jewels, as ornaments for the person. At the con- clusion of that beautiful poem, the restored wealth of Job is reckoned up in cattle, not in money; and though his visiters brought each a piece of money, probably silver, yet each of them brought also an ear-ring of gold *. ' Job, cap. xlii. v. 11 and 12.
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