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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2521571, member: 19463&quot;]I have given a lot of answers here but now ask someone to provide me with one I have never understood.&nbsp; When we hear the story of the Widow&#039;s Mites, coin collectors seem prone to illustrating with the coins of Alexander Jannaeus as shown in this thread as opposed to any of a hundred other types of small Jewish coins.&nbsp; I suppose it is good that we rule out the types of the Procurators after Pontius Pilate but there is absolute.ly no evidence that would suggest the Widow might have had this type rather than other Hasmonean rulers, a Herodean king or the first five procurators ending with Pilate who was current at the time of the Ministry.&nbsp; For the purpose of bringing comfort to those in need, these are fine coins.&nbsp; I guess there are as many million Jannaeus&#039; as any of the others so statistics would suggest that a ruler who died in 76 BC was probably responsible for many coins in circulation a century later but when I think of a Mite, I&#039;d not be limiting to an anchor/wheel. </p><p><br /></p><p>John Hyrcanus II</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537665[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Antigonus Matthias</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537666[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Herod Agrippa</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537669[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Antonius Felix</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537667[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Pontius Pilate</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537668[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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