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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Judean & Biblical Coins| > |Herodian Dynasty| > |Herod the Great| > JD97601
Judean Kingdom, Herod the Great, 37 - 4 B.C.
|Herod| |the| |Great|, |Judean| |Kingdom,| |Herod| |the| |Great,| |37| |-| |4| |B.C.|, Herod's most famous and ambitious project was his magnificent expansion of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 20 - 19 B.C. Although work on out-buildings continued another eighty years, the new Temple was finished in a year and a half. To comply with religious law, Herod employed 1,000 priests as masons and carpenters. The temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. Today, only the four retaining walls of the Temple Mount remain standing, including the Western Wall.
JD97601. Bronze prutah, Hendin 6212 (S); Meshorer TJC 51; HGC 10 656 (S); RPC Online I 4906; BMC Palestina -, F, typically crude style, irregularly shaped flan, edge cracks, Jerusalem mint, weight 1.664g, maximum diameter 17.8mm, c. 27 B.C.; obverse HPΩΔ BAΣIΛ (or similar, Greek: of King Herod), cross surrounded by closed diadem; reverse tripod table with curved legs on an exergue line, within linear border, no palm fronds; scarce; SOLD



  






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