Herod the Great, 40/37-4 BCE, Æ-8 Prutot, year 3 = 40 BCE, Samaria; 5.61 g.
THE SAMEL COLLECTION OF ANCIENT JEWISH COINS
JUDAEA, Herodian Dynasty, 40 BCE-96 CE.
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Herod the Great, 40/37-4 BCE,
Æ-8 Prutot, year 3 = 40 BCE, Samaria; 5.61 g. Helmet with cheek pieces, star on the top and two strips (of a diadem) hanging down in frontal view, flanked by palm fronds//HPΩΔΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ around tripod with vessel (lebes), in the l. field L Γ in the r. field monogram (XP or TR). Hendin no. 1169; Lykke 237 fig. 35; Meshorer, Treasury 221 no. 44.
Double struck, fine
Æ-8 Prutot, year 3 = 40 BCE, Samaria; 5.61 g. Helmet with cheek pieces, star on the top and two strips (of a diadem) hanging down in frontal view, flanked by palm fronds//HPΩΔΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ around tripod with vessel (lebes), in the l. field L Γ in the r. field monogram (XP or TR). Hendin no. 1169; Lykke 237 fig. 35; Meshorer, Treasury 221 no. 44.
Double struck, fine
Inv. no. 617.