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Prutah - Alexander Jannaeus
| Issuer | Judea |
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| Year | 104 BC - 76 BC |
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| Value | 1 Prutah |
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| Obverse script | Hebrew (Paleo-Hebrew) |
| Obverse lettering | יהונתן המלך Π (Translation: King Yehonatan [Jonathan]) |
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Alexander Jannaeus was the first Hasmonean ruler to formally adopt the title "King" on his coinage — a deliberate political break from his predecessors, who styled themselves as high priests. The anchor-and-star prutot were struck in enormous quantities throughout his nearly three-decade reign, which included both military expansion into the Transjordan and Galilee and a brutal civil war against his own Pharisaic subjects that reportedly cost tens of thousands of lives.
Many surviving examples were deliberately overstruck on earlier Hasmonean issues, a practice that makes clean attributions genuinely difficult. Hendin 1151 specifically designates the anchor/star type, the most prolific of his issues.