Hand Made Silver (ST925) Dreidel amulets in the form of

amulets in the form of scarab beetles had become enormously popular in Ancient Egypt by the early Middle Kingdom (approx

was popular throughout the Roman Empire

The vast number of “owls-tetradrachms” available those days mainly from the silver mines of Laurium financed the several achievements of Athens

This is the type of oil lamp that was used in the central hill country of Judea during King Herod’s Rule

it replaced the earlier "heraldic" type of didrachms and it was in wide circulation from c

Hand Made Silver (ST925) Dreidel amulets in the form ofA dreidel is a four sided spinning top used during Hanukkah, featuring letters from the Hebrew alphabet: (nun), (gimel), (hei), and (shin). In Yiddish, these letters represent the rules of a gambling game played with the dreidel: Nun means nothing, Gimel means all, Hei means half, and Shin means put in. These letters also refer to the Hebrew phrase "nes gadol haya sham," meaning "a great miracle happened there," related to the miracle of the oil. In