OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 15:6

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and I permit you to coin money for your country with your own stamp,

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Verse 6. Money. He supposed that Simon would have his own image on it. But we find no human figure on the coins which he sent out during the first four years, but only vessels, trees, inscriptions, and so forth Afterwards he seems to had desisted, either (as some suppose) because it was not conformable to the law, or because he found it brought no profit to the state.

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