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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Judean & Biblical Coins| > |Herodian Dynasty| > |Herod the Great| > SH39610
Judean Kingdom, Herod the Great, 37 - 4 B.C.
|Herod| |the| |Great|, |Judean| |Kingdom,| |Herod| |the| |Great,| |37| |-| |4| |B.C.|, Josephus wrote that Herod's final illness (sometimes called "Herod's Evil") was excruciating. Based on Josephus' descriptions, one medical expert has diagnosed Herod's cause of death as chronic kidney disease complicated by Fournier's gangrene. Similar symptoms attended the death of his grandson Agrippa I in 44 A.D. Modern scholars agree he suffered throughout his lifetime from depression and paranoia. Josephus stated that Herod was so concerned that no one would mourn his death, that he commanded a large group of distinguished men to come to Jericho, and he gave an order that they should be killed at the time of his death so that the displays of grief that he craved would take place. Fortunately for them, Herod's son Archelaus and sister Salome did not carry out this wish.
SH39610. Bronze two prutot, Hendin 6206; Meshorer TJC p. 221, 46; Sofaer p. 257, 12; HGC 10 653 (S); BMC Palestine p. 222, 17; RPC I 4903, Choice VF, Samaria mint, weight 3.352g, maximum diameter 17.5mm, die axis 0o, 40 - 37 B.C.; obverse HPΩΔOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, winged caduceus, date LΓ on left and monogram P on right; reverse poppy pod on stem with leaves, fillet left and right; rare; SOLD



  






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