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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gary Waddingham, post: 2722234, member: 73648&quot;]The only other language on the coins of Samaria is an inscription &quot;Zeus&quot; on one coin in which a sort of Zeus is portrayed sitting.&nbsp; However, this Zeus is smelling a Lilly and has a crown, very atypical Zeus attributes.&nbsp; The other side of the coin (which I have but I give up trying to post pictures here) shows a riding satrap and has an inscription in Aramaic that says &quot;God answers&quot; which involves YHWH although the last letter is changed because it is in construct form (combined with another word).&nbsp; Meshorer and Qedar wrote the two successive definitive books on Samaritan coins and they call it YHWH.&nbsp; Remember that YHWH is an invisible god so any representative images (always very rare and mostly prohibited) will vary some, something you can&#039;t do with say Ahura Mazda because countless statues and images of him exist to which the lesser images must artistically correspond.&nbsp; Although the Samaritans are the descendants of the Jews of the northern kingdom (Israel) the southern Jews (Judah) considered them mostly heretical.&nbsp; Showing God on a coin would be to them further proof of same.&nbsp; However, I maintain even the Samaritans refused to put an image of God and his name on the same side of a coin.&nbsp; That would be an obvious and egregious violation of the aniconic prohibition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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