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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Featured Collections| > |Sold Collections| > |Maxwell Hunt Collection| > JD91409
Judean Kingdom, Herod the Great, 37 - 4 B.C.
|Maxwell| |Hunt| |Collection|, |Judean| |Kingdom,| |Herod| |the| |Great,| |37| |-| |4| |B.C.|, Herod the Great, a Roman client king of Judea, has been described as a madman who murdered his own family and a great many rabbis, as prepared to commit any crime in order to gratify his unbounded ambition, and as the greatest builder in Jewish history. He is known for his colossal building projects throughout Judea, including his expansion of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (Herod's Temple), the construction of the port at Caesarea Maritima, the fortress at Masada and Herodium. Vital details of his life are recorded in the works of the 1st century Roman-Jewish historian Josephus.
JD91409. Bronze 2 prutot, Hendin 6211a (S), Meshorer TJC 49, Sofaer 19, RPC I 4905 var. (closed diadem), F, broad flan, green patina, a little rough and crude, edge crack, obverse edge beveled, Jerusalem mint, weight 3.402g, maximum diameter 19.8mm, die axis 0o, c. 30 - 29 B.C.; obverse HPΩΔOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ (of King Herod), cross surrounded by open diadem; reverse plate on tripod table, flanked by erect palm branches; from the Maxwell Hunt Collection; SOLD











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