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<p>[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3586620, member: 80804"]If you're calling for examples:</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album268/Tyre_I.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album268/Tyre_I" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album268/Tyre_I" rel="nofollow">http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album268/Tyre_I</a></p><p>Compare to Demetrius II:</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album266/12_Dem_II_AR_tet.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album266/12_Dem_II_AR_tet?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album266/12_Dem_II_AR_tet?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album266/12_Dem_II_AR_tet?full=1</a></p><p>Half-shekel:</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album268/Tyre_II.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album268/Tyre_II" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album268/Tyre_II" rel="nofollow">http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album268/Tyre_II</a></p><p>The combination of Melqart, eagle and club was such a well-known and preferred "brand" that almost a century later than the latest Tyrian shekels, we have Trajan (98-117 AD. ) minting this somewhat debased tetradrachm/shekel/cistophorus (take your choice of denomination terminology) trading on the lingering popularity of the original shekels:</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album268/Tyre_III.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>This was not Trajan's only design for Levantine tetradrachms, although the eagle continued to be a go-to reverse device - one which survived pretty well to the end of the series of Antioch tetradrachms:</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album267/07_trajan_Tet.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album267/07_trajan_Tet?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album267/07_trajan_Tet?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album267/07_trajan_Tet?full=1</a></p><p>Trajan Decius, 249-251 AD. Still using eagles on Antioch tetradrachms a century and a half after Trajan:</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album267/Decius.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album267/Decius?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album267/Decius?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album267/Decius?full=1</a></p><p>Given the stereotypy that can be traced across centuries, it may well be valid to ask if the perception of the (common) shekel of Tyre corresponding to the biblical story of Judas' betrayal is factual or the result of a clever marketing ploy (cf. "tribute penny" - without a shred of evidence that there is any connection - some say the Gaius & Lucius denarius of Augustus was more likely because it was quite likely more common in circulation in Judea at the time than Tiberius' Livia PONTIF MAXIM denarius.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3586620, member: 80804"]If you're calling for examples: [IMG]http://www.stoa.org/albums/album268/Tyre_I.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album268/Tyre_I[/URL] Compare to Demetrius II: [IMG]http://www.stoa.org/albums/album266/12_Dem_II_AR_tet.sized.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album266/12_Dem_II_AR_tet?full=1[/URL] Half-shekel: [IMG]http://www.stoa.org/albums/album268/Tyre_II.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album268/Tyre_II[/URL] The combination of Melqart, eagle and club was such a well-known and preferred "brand" that almost a century later than the latest Tyrian shekels, we have Trajan (98-117 AD. ) minting this somewhat debased tetradrachm/shekel/cistophorus (take your choice of denomination terminology) trading on the lingering popularity of the original shekels: [IMG]http://www.stoa.org/albums/album268/Tyre_III.jpg[/IMG] This was not Trajan's only design for Levantine tetradrachms, although the eagle continued to be a go-to reverse device - one which survived pretty well to the end of the series of Antioch tetradrachms: [IMG]http://www.stoa.org/albums/album267/07_trajan_Tet.sized.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album267/07_trajan_Tet?full=1[/URL] Trajan Decius, 249-251 AD. Still using eagles on Antioch tetradrachms a century and a half after Trajan: [IMG]http://www.stoa.org/albums/album267/Decius.sized.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album267/Decius?full=1[/URL] Given the stereotypy that can be traced across centuries, it may well be valid to ask if the perception of the (common) shekel of Tyre corresponding to the biblical story of Judas' betrayal is factual or the result of a clever marketing ploy (cf. "tribute penny" - without a shred of evidence that there is any connection - some say the Gaius & Lucius denarius of Augustus was more likely because it was quite likely more common in circulation in Judea at the time than Tiberius' Livia PONTIF MAXIM denarius.)[/QUOTE]
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