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Æ20 - Herod Agrippa I
| Issuer | Judea |
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| Year | 42-43 |
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| Weight | 8.73 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of fortune and civic destiny, stands facing left in full figure, her right hand resting upon a ship's rudder and her left hand holding an upright palm branch. The figure is rendered in the Hellenistic tradition common to eastern provincial coinage. The surrounding Greek legend identifies the city of Caesarea Maritima and its Augustan harbour. The overall type reflects the Greco-Roman civic imagery favoured by Agrippa I in his coinage for non-Jewish audiences. |
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Herod Agrippa I is the only Herodian ruler to have governed the entirety of Judea — a territory matching the boundaries of his grandfather Herod the Great — and he did so for barely three years before his sudden death in 44 AD, an event described in detail by both Josephus and the Acts of the Apostles. This issue dates to his third regnal year, the last full year of that consolidated rule. Agrippa cultivated favor simultaneously with Rome and with Jewish religious authorities, a balancing act reflected in his coinage: his Jerusalem bronzes avoid figural imagery entirely, which this piece does.