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E-Auction 18  7 December 2016
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Lot 22

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JUDAEA. Herod Agrippa I. 37-43 C.E. Æ prutah. 2.39 gm. 16 mm. Jerusalem mint. Dated RY 6 (41/2 C.E.). Canopy with fringes / Three grain ears; L-ς (date) to either side. Meshorer 120. Hendin 1244. RPC I 4981. Good Fine; attractive dark green patina with lighter highlights. David Sear comments on the "miserable" coinage in Judaea in biblical times under the Romans, as this piece demonstrates. Herod Agrippa I, grandson of Herod the Great, spent much of his boyhood in Rome at the imperial court but was granted territories to rule, by Caligula and later Claudius, which came to include Judaea.
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