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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37157	A discourse upon coins by Signor Bernardo Davanzati, a gentleman of Florence, being publickly spoken in the academy there, anno 1588 ; translated out of Italian by John Toland.; Lezione delle monete. English	Davanzati, Bernardo, 1529-1606.; Toland, John, 1670-1722.	1696 (1696)	Wing D301; ESTC R10162	15,606	30

to our Lives for which all Earthly Things seem to have been created Yet Men as if they would make Nature asham'd of this have agreed to make those Metals of equal value to all other things to make 'em the Price and Measure of all and the Instruments of changing and exchanging whatever can be found good in this World We may therefore call 'em the second Causes of a happy Life seeing that by their means we enjoy all those Benefits which render it so This is likewise the Reason why many have made 'em their Gods seeing 'em perform almost Impossibilities There is not a Rock so hard said a wise and warlike King but an Ass loadn'd with Gold may force it The known Fable of Jupiter's descending into Danaë's Lap in a shower of Gold signifies nothing else but the Miracles which Gold can work We may conclude as much of the Story of Gyges a Lydian Shepherd who walking in a Cave is said to have taken a Gold Ring from the Finger of a dead Man he found there and putting it upon one of his own he presently becomes invisible goes into the King's Bed-Chamber enjoys the Queen by whose Assistance he next murders her Husband and seizes the Kingdom to himself 3. Considering therefore the mighty Power and Importance of Gold in Human Affairs and since Socrates leaving Divine and Natural Things to the Care of the Gods taught that Morality and Matters of Practice did only belong to us I esteem it not a mean Subject nor unseasonable nor out of my Province most courteous Academicks to discourse now before you of Gold of Silver and other Coins But it shall be with much brevity after our Florentine manner especially because I come hither to day under a great Infirmity my old and hereditary Distemper which has not only render'd me feeble and uneasy but likewise for many Years a Stranger to Books and Study I must therefore beg your Attention because I naturally am and shall this day be purposely sparing of my words 4. Our Mortal Body being design'd a Habitation for the Divine and Immortal Soul was fram'd as became the Servant of so great a Lady of a most noble delicate and tender Constitution but withal naked and expos'd to the Injuries of Seasons and Animals It could not therefore but stand in need of several things which no body can procure by himself alone and this is the reason why we live together in Cities to help one another by various Occupations Offices and Degrees But no Person is born fit for all sorts of Business some having a Genius for one thing and some for another nor can any Climate indifferently produce all the Fruits of Earth being in very different Situations with respect to the Sun and Stars Hence it is that one Man labours and toils not for himself alone but also for others and they reciprocally for him So one City helps another and one Country parts with its Superfluities to another in lieu whereof it is from thence again suppli'd with what it wants And thus all the good things of Nature and Art are communicated and enjoy'd by the means of Human Commerce or Traffick which at first was but simple Barter or changing of one Commodity for another as it still continues in the unciviliz'd parts of the World 5. Now it was a difficult thing to know who stood in need of what you could spare or who had an overplus of what you wanted and so to transport preserve or divide them as that both Parties might be accommodated But Necessity the Mother of Inventions taught Men to pitch upon a certain place where many meeting from different Parts with their Commodities might the more easily supply one another and this was the Origin of Fairs and Markets Their Eyes were open'd by this Convenience to discover a greater that as they had chosen a particular place so they might appoint some one thing that should bear an equivalent value to all others and that every thing might be given or receiv'd for a certain quantity thereof as if it had been the Medium or Fountain of the universal Value of things their separate Substance or Idea 6. The first Money that the Antients wrought was Copper and was by common Consent preferr'd to this high Office So whatever superabounded to any Person he gave it for as much Copper as was compar'd with or judg'd equal to it this Copper he afterwards gave for other things wanting to him or otherwise he kept it by him in his Coffer as a Security for the Supply of his future Necessities And this was the Original of selling and buying which we Tuscans still call comparing in our Language comperare Afterwards the greater Excellency of Gold and Silver did set them off and occasion'd them to be made Money They were at the beginning us'd in unwrought Pieces as they came to hand but as Additions are easily made to Inventions they were next weigh'd then stamp'd and so became Money 7. When where or by whom Money was first coin'd is not agreed upon by Writers Herodotus says in Lydia others in Naxos Strabo in Aegina some in Lycia by King Erichthonius Lucan says in Thessaly by King Jonus I cannot learn that there was any Money in use before the Flood but the Scriptures speak plainly of it afterwards Abraham purchas'd a Field from Ephron the Hittite for four hundred Shekels of Silver currant Money with the Merchant Joseph was sold by his Brethren for twenty pieces of Silver And Moses laid upon the Israelites by Poll half a Shekel that is four Drachms of Silver Theseus who reign'd in Attica about the time of the Judges in Israel coin'd Silver-Money with the Stamp of an Ox upon it to invite those to manure and till the Ground who till then liv'd at random in the Woods When Janus King of Latium receiv'd Saturn fled by Sea from his Son Jupiter who drove him from his Throne that was in the so well govern'd and so much celebrated Golden Age Janus I say did in the Memory of this Favour coin Copper Money which had stamp'd upon it the Prow of a Ship The first Money among the Romans was a piece of Copper without any coining of a Pound Weight call'd by them Aes gravis As Assis and Pondo Servius Tullius stamp'd a Sheep upon it as one of his Domestick Animals the Riches of the Antients consisting then in their Flocks by them call'd Peculium or Pecunia whence Money was so nam'd In the Year of Rome 383 Silver was there coin'd and Gold sixty two Years after When the Florentines defeated the Forces of Siena at Mount Alcino in the Year 1252 they coin'd a Dram of fine Gold into a Florin which was so well receiv'd in the World that all People would coin such Pieces and call them Florins too 8. The Latin Names of Money are Moneta Pecunia Nummus The Greek Names are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And ours Pecunia Danari Danaio 'T is call'd