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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Judean & Biblical Coins| > |Biblical Coins| > |The Temple Tax Coin| > SL62590
The Temple Tax Coin, Tyre KP Type Half Shekel, Jerusalem or Tyre Mint, 35 - 36 A.D.
|The| |Temple| |Tax| |Coin|, |The| |Temple| |Tax| |Coin,| |Tyre| |KP| |Type| |Half| |Shekel,| |Jerusalem| |or| |Tyre| |Mint,| |35| |-| |36| |A.D.|, Half Shekel - the currency of the Jerusalem Temple
After the coinage of Tyre was debased under Roman control, some experts believe Herod the Great began to strike "Tyre" shekels in Jerusalem. These coins were of cruder fabric and style, but maintained the silver purity required to pay the temple tax. The Jerusalem shekels have the letters KP or KAP to the right of the eagle and dates range from PH (18/17 B.C.) to PE (69/70 A.D.). The Greek letters KP or KAP are probably an abbreviation for KAICAP, Greek for Caesar.
SL62590. Silver half shekel, RPC I 4665, Prieur 1425, VF, Tyre or Jerusalem mint, 35 - 36 A.D.; obverse laureate head of Melqart right, lion's skin knotted around neck; reverse TYPOY IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY (of Tyre the holy and inviolable), eagle standing left, head left, wings closed, right talon on war galley ram, palm frond transverse right behind, PΞA (year 161) over club left, KP and monogram right, Aramaic letter between legs; PCGS certified "genuine" (slabbed); SOLD



  






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