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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 5783851, member: 85693&quot;]I recently had a similar situation with a prutah I found in my local dealer&#039;s junk bin - my efforts at attribution are below.&nbsp;&nbsp; The link was pretty useful, I thought, if not conclusive in this case.&nbsp; So it goes with ancients sometimes!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1243298[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Judaea, Hasmonian</b> <b>Kingdom</b></p><p><b>John Hyrcanus I?&nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Prutah</b></p><p><b>(135-104 B.C.)</b></p><p><b>Jerusalem Mint</b></p><p>Paleo-Hebrew within wreath (Yehohanan the High Priest and the Council of the Jews) / Double cornucopia beribbobed, pomegranate between.</p><p>Hendin 457</p><p>(1.79 grams / 8 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note: </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse legend mostly illegible; this could be: &quot;Consistent with a coin issued in the time of Alexander Jannaeus (103–76 B.C.)... similar coin was issued by Yehohnan Hyrcanus (135-104 B.C.)...Another similar coin...was issued by Yehuda Aristobulus 1 (104–103 B.C.)...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rak/courses/735/Realia/coins-Judean-vw.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rak/courses/735/Realia/coins-Judean-vw.html" rel="nofollow">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rak/courses/735/Realia/coins-Judean-vw.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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