Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG
Auction 334 17 Mar 2020
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Coins of the Hasmonaean Dynasty (135/129 – 37 BCE).
John Hyrcanus I, 135-104 BCE. Half-Prutah, Jerusalem; 1,11 g. YHWH[dot below]NN HKHN HGDL above a palm frond, WH[dot below]NB HYHWDYM below it (Yehohanan the High Priest and the Jews' Council)//A blossom of a lily flanked by two ears of grain, A in the l. field. Hendin no. 1134; Meshorer, Treasury 203 Group C.
Nearly very fine
Overbeck – Meshorer no. 60.
Cf. Lykke 44, who falling back on Romanoff 50 f. discusses the problem whether the depicted flower is to identify with a lily or a rose. At any rate, the representation of the lily seems to be influenced by Rhodian coins which show a rose. For the meaning of the lily cf. Romanoff 45-51 and Lykke 45 f. who characterises the symbol's development from a „sign of Judaea and Jerusalem" to a „central image ... within Jewish coin iconography". It may be sufficient to cite verse 14.6 from the Book of Hosea: „I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon".
John Hyrcanus I, 135-104 BCE. Half-Prutah, Jerusalem; 1,11 g. YHWH[dot below]NN HKHN HGDL above a palm frond, WH[dot below]NB HYHWDYM below it (Yehohanan the High Priest and the Jews' Council)//A blossom of a lily flanked by two ears of grain, A in the l. field. Hendin no. 1134; Meshorer, Treasury 203 Group C.
Nearly very fine
Overbeck – Meshorer no. 60.
Cf. Lykke 44, who falling back on Romanoff 50 f. discusses the problem whether the depicted flower is to identify with a lily or a rose. At any rate, the representation of the lily seems to be influenced by Rhodian coins which show a rose. For the meaning of the lily cf. Romanoff 45-51 and Lykke 45 f. who characterises the symbol's development from a „sign of Judaea and Jerusalem" to a „central image ... within Jewish coin iconography". It may be sufficient to cite verse 14.6 from the Book of Hosea: „I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon".