A Coin
“Testing Analogy”
object · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
a coin · a piece of coin · an approved coin · counterfeit coin · the coin · سكة
spoken of as
1 expressionCoin“approved and counterfeit”3 mentions
Stromata (Greek) · Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq (Arabic) · An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (English)
For there is an approved coin and another counterfeit, which deceives the laymen no less, but not the money-changers, who know, having learned, to separate and distinguish the counterfeit from the approved.
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Minted currency, invoked as a pledge of mutual civic obligation whose falsification is compared to fraudulent bankruptcy.
for to falsify a piece of coin, which is a pledge of the mutual obligation between citizens, is not a greater crime than to violate the obligations themselves.
Stromata
Genuine and counterfeit coinage, used as an extended analogy for the discernment needed to separate true faith and knowledge from imitation.
For there is an approved coin and another counterfeit, which deceives the laymen no less, but not the money-changers, who know, having learned, to separate and distinguish the counterfeit from the approved.
Exordia
A coin, invoked as an analogy: just as one would test a coin to judge its worth, the Assembly is urged to test the worth of a speech before adopting it.
Accordingly, just as you would have thought it necessary to test a coin if you were judging what its worth might be, so I ask of you to scrutinize in the light of what we have to say against it the speech that has been made, and if you find it to your advantage, agree with the speaker, and may good fortune attend you;
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The intermediate class of stamped metal objects in the dinar example, standing between round things and dinars
Then we add to the attribute of roundness its being of metal, stamped with the seal of the realm, and we retain a standard from it and name it, in this aspect, (a coin);