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An example of Samaritan script from Athanasius Kircher's 1697 book Turris Babel

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English: An example of Samaritan script from Athanasius Kircher's 1697 book Turris Babel; the text is translated in latin as Israël siclus Sancta Jerusalem ("Shekel of Israel, Holy Jerusalem"). Extracted and cut out from page 215 of the book; the text is (said to be) a Samaritan transcription of the letters on this coin.
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