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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Judean & Biblical Coins| > |Roman Procurators| > |Marcus Ambibulus| > JD97339
Judaea, Marcus Ambibulus, Roman Prefect Under Augustus, 9 - 12 A.D.
|Marcus| |Ambibulus|, |Judaea,| |Marcus| |Ambibulus,| |Roman| |Prefect| |Under| |Augustus,| |9| |-| |12| |A.D.|, When the Romans invaded ancient Judea, thick forests of date palms up to 80 feet (24 m) high and 7 miles (11 km) wide covered the Jordan River valley from the Sea of Galilee in the north to the shores of the Dead Sea in the south. The tree so defined the local economy that Emperor Vespasian celebrated the conquest by minting the "Judaea Capta", a special bronze coin that showed the Jewish state as a weeping woman beneath a date palm. The Qur'an describes how Maryam (the Islamic parallel of Mary (mother of Jesus)) was advised to eat dates to ease her labor pains; presumably, this would have been a Judean date.
JD97339. Bronze prutah, Hendin 6359; Meshorer TJC 314; RPC I 4956; Sofaer, pl. 219, 6; BMC Palestine p. 249, 20, F, green patina with highlighting deposits, porous, obverse off center, edge cracks, Jerusalem mint, weight 1.538g, maximum diameter 16.5mm, die axis 0o, 9 - 10 A.D.; obverse KAICAPOC (of Caesar), barley head curved to right; reverse eight-branched date palm tree, bearing two bunches of dates, L - M (year 40 of Augustus) divided across lower field; from an Israeli collection; SOLD










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