@Deacon Ray your coins and presentation are beautiful. Here's an AE prutah of Agrippa I, the common one of five that he issued (the other 4 are rare from Caesarea Maritima): Judaea, Herodians, Agrippa I, 37-43 CE, AE prutah, Jerusalem mint, dated regnal year (RY 6) or 41/42 AD Obv: Umbrella-like canopy Rev: Three grain ears; L [ς] (date) across field Ref: Hendin 1244; RPC I 4981 Note: the umbrella, as protection from the sun, a symbol of the importance of the king and a substitute for a portrait that would not have been considered appropriate in Jerusalem. The barley ears are a symbol of bounty, abundance, and prosperity. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey. -Deuteronomy 8:7-8 A 3rd century papyrus, Acts 12.13-22, in which begins the writing of Agrippa I's end. Josephus Chapter 8 section 2 also shares a version of this story.
Uh, we don't know the meaning of those words! But I did a Google search & found this: "Martian" translation of "have enough": want more
Interesting set! Today I got my first Agrippa coin, quite a coincidence. I wanted a coin that is somehow correlated to the Bible and this is just fine for now. Judaea, Herodian Kingdom. Agrippa I. 37-44 C.E. AE prutah (19.2 mm, 2.82 g, 11 h). Jerusalem mint, struck 41-42 C.E.. BACIΛEΩC AΓPIΠA, umbrella / Three ears of barley, flanked by L-ς. Hendin 1244; Meshorer TJC 120. There is an interesting theory about this coin, taken into consideration even by David Hendin, suggesting this coin is struck under Agrippa II not I. The obverse legend, not fully visible on my coin, is BACIΛEΩC AΓPIΠA - however on all Agrippa I coins the name is spelled with double Π . On Agrippa II coins the name is spelled with a single Π. If this is correct, this coin is actually struck during the Jewish War.
That's a wonderful group of Roman provincial coins of Judaea, and a nice prutah of Agrippa I. According to Robert Graves (I, Claudius and Claudius The God) Agrippa I and Claudius were childhood friends. The friendship continued into adulthood. However, that friendship became very strained when Claudius suspected Agrippa I of designs to create his own kingdom, a plan that never came to fruition with Agrippa's sudden death. Here's my Roman bronze of Judaea, an AE 23 of Domitian, Caesarea Maritima, 81-96 AD, depicting Nike in flowing gown advancing left, holding wreath and small trophy, clearly a reference to Rome's victory in the first Jewish Revolt. Hendin 747; AJC II, 291, 10 8.9 grams
