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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;philologus_1, post: 7338587, member: 92212&quot;]Yeh, can&#039;t trust movies or television (or the news) for reliable ancient numismatics.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were no gold Judaean coins issued at all. The Romans would not allow the client kingdom to produce any coins with precious metal. The only times Judaea produced silver coinage was during the few years of the 1st Jewish War/Revolt, and again during the few years of the 2nd (<i>Bar Kochba</i>) Revolt.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fake/fantasy(?) coin pictured looks more like an issue of Tyre or Sidon than Alexandria. The right reverse legend is too out-of-focus for my old eyes to read.</p><p><br /></p><p>If Herod gave away gold, and if it was in the form of coins, and if it was Ptolemaic gold -- they would have been fairly old coins.&nbsp; I think the last of the Ptolemaic gold coinage were struck in late 3rd century BCE.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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