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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 5954458, member: 99456&quot;][USER=81896]@Deacon Ray[/USER]&nbsp; your coins and presentation are beautiful.&nbsp; Here&#039;s an AE prutah of Agrippa I, the common one of five that he issued (the other 4 are rare from Caesarea Maritima):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1244348[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Judaea, Herodians, Agrippa I</b>, 37-43 CE, AE prutah, Jerusalem mint, dated regnal year (RY 6) or 41/42 AD</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Umbrella-like canopy</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Three grain ears; L [ς] (date) across field</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Hendin 1244; RPC I 4981</p><p><b>Note:</b> the umbrella, as protection from the sun, a symbol of the importance of the king and a substitute for a portrait that would not have been considered appropriate in Jerusalem.&nbsp; The barley ears are a symbol of bounty, abundance, and prosperity.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, <u>a land of wheat and barley</u>, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/nkjv/deuteronomy/passage/?q=deuteronomy+8:7-8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/nkjv/deuteronomy/passage/?q=deuteronomy+8:7-8" rel="nofollow">Deuteronomy 8:7-8</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1243774[/ATTACH]<a href="http://www.csntm.org/manuscript/Group/GA_P45?OSIS=Acts.12.13" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.csntm.org/manuscript/Group/GA_P45?OSIS=Acts.12.13" rel="nofollow">A 3rd century papyrus, Acts 12.13-22</a>, in which begins the writing of <a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/kjv/acts/passage/?q=acts+12:20-25" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/kjv/acts/passage/?q=acts+12:20-25" rel="nofollow">Agrippa I&#039;s end</a>. Josephus <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-19.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-19.html" rel="nofollow">Chapter 8 section 2</a> also shares a version of this story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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