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- The consecutive history of ancient Jewish coinage begins after the establishment of the independent Hasmonean dynasty in the 2 nd century B.C.E. The bulk of Hasmonean coins were of the small bronze denomination, namely the perutah or dilepton.
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Archaeology in Israel: Ancient Jewish Coins. Sources: The Handbook of Biblical Numismatics (reprinted with permission by the author Mel Wacks) Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.
- Hadrian's Trip to Judaea
The Roman Emperor Hadrian (117-138 CE) visited many of the...
- The Other Jewish Revolt
However, another Jewish uprising that took place 115-117 CE...
- The Syrian-Judean Coin Connection
Coinage was considered an important symbol of sovereignty...
- City Coins of Palestine
A few cities, with large Jewish populations - Neapolis and...
- Herod's Grandchildren
Both Herod of Chalcis and his son Aristobulus of Chalcis...
- Arabs in The Holy Land
The Roman Emperor Heraclius lost Jerusalem to the Arabian...
- The Roman-Judean Coin Connection
The Romans had a long history of interfering with Judaean...
- Judaea Capta
Soon after the Temple at Jerusalem was razed by the...
- Hadrian's Trip to Judaea
- The Hasmonean Coinage
- The Coinage of The Herodian Dynasty
- The Coinage of The Jewish War
- The Coinage of The Bar Kokhba War
The consecutive history of ancient Jewish coinage begins after the establishment of the independent Hasmonean dynasty in the 2nd century B.C.E. The bulk of Hasmonean coins were of the small bronze denomination, namely the perutah or dilepton. In accordance with the Second Commandment no likeness of living beings, men or animals, are found on them. ...
(37 B.C.E.–C. 95 C.E.). The coins of Herod the Great (37–4 B.C.E.), all of bronze as those of his successors, can be divided into two groups: those which are dated and those which are not. The dated coins all bear the same date, the year three. As Herod no doubt reckoned his reign from his appointment as king of Judea by the Romans in 40 B.C.E. and...
By the time the Jewish War broke out, the Tyrian mint had ceased to issue silver shekels but shekels were needed by every Jewish adult male for the payment of the annual Temple tax of a half-shekel (Ex. 30:11ff.; II Kings 12:5ff.). This reason and the resolve of the Jewish authorities to demonstrate their sovereignty over their own country led to t...
During this war the last Jewish coin series in antiquity was issued. Bar Kokhba became the head of the Jewish community, and the bulk of the coins issued bear the name Simeon and eventually his title "prince of Israel." However, other coins exist from that period which bear the name of one "Eleazar the Priest" or simply that of "Jerusalem" as the m...
First Jewish Revolt coinage was issued by the Jews after the Zealots captured Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple from the Romans in 66 CE at the beginning of the First Jewish Revolt. The Jewish leaders of the revolt minted their own coins to emphasize their newly obtained independence from Rome.
Ancient Jewish coins are an important source of information for Jewish history from the late Persian period until the time of the Bar Kochba revolt. They throw much light on the cultural, political, and economic aspects of
Kadman split the coins of the First Jewish Revolt into three groups: 1) the silver sheqalim and half-sheqalim, 2) the bronze prutot of the second and third years of the Revolt, and 3) the bronzes of the fourth year of the Revolt.
Summary. Since the eighteenth century the careful, scientific study of ancient Palestinian coinage struck by both Jewish and non-Jewish authorities has been recognized as an important adjunct to the study of classical Jewish history. The careful recording of coins, the exact cataloguing of the numismatic evidence in archeological excavations ...
The First Jewish Revolt coinage was issued from AD 66 to 70 amid the First Jewish–Roman War as a means of emphasizing the independence of Judea from Roman rule and replacing the Tyrian shekel with its image of a foreign god which had previously been minted to pay the temple tax.
