A SILVER COIN WORTH A THOUSAND TIMES ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD.
The Standard, one of London's very interesting papers, states on the authority of its Berlin correspondent that an archeological find of the greatest interest has just been made by Pastor Lohmann, chairman of the German Society for Scientific Research in Anatolia. During his recent journey in North Syria a coin of pure silver, excellently preserved, was offered to him, which, on examination, proved to bear a perfect Aramean inscription of Panammu Bar Rerub, King of Schamol, who reigned eight hundred years before Christ. It is the oldest known coin in the world. Up to the present the Lydians have always been regarded as the inventors of money, but this new find shows that the Semitic Arameans, who lived two centuries before the Lydians, are the oldest known coiners of money. —Christian Advocate.