- ANCIENT JUDAEA 135-104 B.C.E.
- THE FIRST COINS STRUCK UNDER JEWISH DIRECTION.
- Struck by John Hyrcanus I, son of Simon the Maccabee and nephew of the folk hero Judah Maccabee, was a vassal king under the Greek Seleucid king Antiochus VII. Still, in a gesture of goodwill and compromise, he was given the right to strike coins with Jewish symbols and removal human or animal imagery. For exclusive use in Judaea, minted in Jerusalem, struck 132-130 B.C.E.
- Bronze prutah of 2 grams, 15 mm.
- Obverse, anchor (the symbols of the Seleucid’s) ‘king Antiochus benefactor’ in VF Condition.
- Greek script. Reverse, LILY within dotted border.
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