Monetary Developments in Java between the Ninth and Sixteenth Centuries: A Numismatic Perspective
Author(s) -
Robert S. Wicks
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
indonesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.276
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2164-8654
pISSN - 0019-7289
DOI - 10.2307/3351187
Subject(s) - ninth , java , perspective (graphical) , history , ancient history , computer science , programming language , physics , artificial intelligence , acoustics
S. . this place Ecalled Java,] surrounded by the sea, is full of movable and immovable wealth and blessed with treasure, and is one where it rains pearls, and gold and silver coin and goods of the most precious kind. The creative power of the Almighty has perfumed this place and its surroundings with the breath of aloe and of cloves; in the houses and the districts the parrots cry in Arabic: "I am a garden, whose glories and pleasures are envied by every paradise. .. ." W4ssf, "The Conquest of the Islan of Java," completed ca. 1299-1300.
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