Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG
Auction 334 17 Mar 2020
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Coins of the Hasmonaean Dynasty (135/129 – 37 BCE).
Mattathias Antigonus, 40-37 BCE. Æ-Prutah, Jerusalem; 1,17 g. Traces of the palaeo-Hebrew inscription MTTYH KHN GDL (Mattathias the High Priest) around the Show-bread table (without breads)//Traces of the Greek Inscription BA†ΙΛΕΩ† ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΟΥ around the Menorah. Hendin no. 1168; Meshorer, Treasury 220 no. 41.
Extremely rare. Very fine
Overbeck – Meshorer no. 78.
There is some disagreement as to whether these coins were minted at the beginning or at the end of Mattathias's reign, cf. I. Goldstein – J.-Ph. Fontanille, The Small Denominations of Mattathias Antigonus: Die Classification and Interpretations, Israel Numismatic Review 8, 2013, 55-71. For the symbolic meaning of the Menorah cf. Romanoff, Jewish Symbols on Ancient Jewish Coins, New York 1944 (1971), 33-37; J. Voß, Die Menora. Gestalt und Funktion des Leuchters im Tempel zu Jerusalem, Freiburg (CH)/Göttingen 1993, 69.
Mattathias Antigonus, 40-37 BCE. Æ-Prutah, Jerusalem; 1,17 g. Traces of the palaeo-Hebrew inscription MTTYH KHN GDL (Mattathias the High Priest) around the Show-bread table (without breads)//Traces of the Greek Inscription BA†ΙΛΕΩ† ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΟΥ around the Menorah. Hendin no. 1168; Meshorer, Treasury 220 no. 41.
Extremely rare. Very fine
Overbeck – Meshorer no. 78.
There is some disagreement as to whether these coins were minted at the beginning or at the end of Mattathias's reign, cf. I. Goldstein – J.-Ph. Fontanille, The Small Denominations of Mattathias Antigonus: Die Classification and Interpretations, Israel Numismatic Review 8, 2013, 55-71. For the symbolic meaning of the Menorah cf. Romanoff, Jewish Symbols on Ancient Jewish Coins, New York 1944 (1971), 33-37; J. Voß, Die Menora. Gestalt und Funktion des Leuchters im Tempel zu Jerusalem, Freiburg (CH)/Göttingen 1993, 69.