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Title: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: strelets on April 09, 2010, 05:26:32 pm

Hi!

I have some Judean coins, need your help to identify them!!!

Any comments are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!!

#1

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: Aarmale on April 09, 2010, 05:29:41 pm

I think this may be Nabatean.

Could it be
Aretas IV with Queen Huldu
13 CE
Ya'akov Meshorer, Nabataean Coins, QEDEM 3, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1975) 70v.

Obverse: Busts of king left.
Reverse: Two cornucopiae.

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: strelets on April 09, 2010, 05:31:20 pm

Quote from: Aarmale on April 09, 2010, 05:29:41 pm

I think this may be Nabatean.

Aarmale, thanks! Can you give more information? Date, period, city?

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: strelets on April 09, 2010, 05:33:13 pm

#2

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: strelets on April 09, 2010, 05:35:05 pm

#3

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: strelets on April 09, 2010, 05:36:45 pm

#4

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: strelets on April 09, 2010, 05:39:31 pm

#5

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: Aarmale on April 09, 2010, 05:41:41 pm

I edited my first post.


Easy. :)

2. Hyrcanus I prutah (Yehochanan HaKohen Gadol V'Haver HaYehudim var. Hendin 457)

3 Valerius Gratus Hendin 644-7

4 Valerius Gratus Hendin 646

5 Pontius Pilate Hendin 648

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: strelets on April 09, 2010, 05:42:46 pm

#6

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: Aarmale on April 09, 2010, 05:44:21 pm

Herod Archelaeus Hendin 508

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: strelets on April 09, 2010, 05:45:34 pm

#7

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: Aarmale on April 09, 2010, 05:46:31 pm

Alexander Jannaeus, lepton, Hendin 471. Anchor+star type. 78 BCE.

This has been one of the fastest IDing i've ever done! :)

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: strelets on April 09, 2010, 05:55:26 pm

Aarmale, thanks!!!! That's great, so quick!!!!

But I have some questions, sorry for my "poor knowledge" in this part of numismatic.
For sample #5 Pontius Pilate Hendin 648
Hendin 648 is a number of a coin or a year of the coinage?

lepton - what is it?

Sorry again!

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: Aarmale on April 09, 2010, 05:58:01 pm

Its perfectly fine to ask.

Lepton is a type of coin, and is equal to 1/2 prutah (All the coins are prutahs, except the lepton I pointed out).

Hendin is the reference.  Look in Hendin's book on Judaean coins, find #648 and thats it.

Do you want me to post dates for all the coins?

-Aarmale

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: strelets on April 09, 2010, 06:02:58 pm

I see - 2 leptons are 1 prutah :)

Quote from: Aarmale on April 09, 2010, 05:58:01 pm

Do you want me to post dates for all the coins?

yes, I want it !!!!!!

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: Aarmale on April 09, 2010, 06:08:17 pm

#1 From Nabatea - 13 CE
(everything else is from modern-day Israel and surrounding countrys)
#2 Undated, from 134-104 BCE
#3 Undated, from 17-19 CE
#4 18 CE
#5 29 CE
#6 Undated, from 4 BCE to 6 CE
#7 78 BCE

-Aarmale

Title: Re: Some Judean coins, need your help
Post by: strelets on April 09, 2010, 06:12:13 pm

THANKS!!!!

MY RESPECT!!!!