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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3523026, member: 87809&quot;]Browsing through the under $50 coins at forumancientcoins.com, I saw this (very common) Prutah. I immediately thought how cool it is to have a coin that must have been used in Jerusalem in biblical times. Couldn&#039;t help myself, just had to buy it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I know it is off-center, the legend is only partial and the flan is tight, but I just loved the idea of having it. And the price was $14. </p><p><br /></p><p>17.3 mm, 2.199 g, die axis 0o</p><p>Jerusalem mint, year 6 = 42 AD</p><p>Ref.: Hendin 1244; Meshorer TJC 120; RPC I 4981</p><p>Obv.: AΓPIΠA BACIΛEWC (of King Agrippa), royal fringed umbrella-like canopy</p><p>Rev.: three heads of barley between two leaves, flanked by L - ς (year 6)</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]935584[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Also got a reduced cententionalis, Constans I, just because I loved the rosette-diademed head ornament. Ups, my husband says that I am beginning to get addicted <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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