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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4722654, member: 10461"]<b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Judaea: bronze lepton of Alexander Jannaeus, ca. 103-76 BC (the biblical "Widow's mite")</font></font></b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1271059[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Obverse:</b> Anchor, inscription.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Reverse:</b> wheel with spokes or 8-pointed star.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">These coins circulated in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land" rel="nofollow">Holy Land</a> at the time of Christ and are believed to be the type mentioned in the Bible, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite" rel="nofollow">the lesson of the widow's mite</a>".</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This example shows evidence of the way the blank flans were cast in strips, then cut before being struck into coins. The irregular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchet" rel="nofollow">flan</a> here is shaped rather like a little jug.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Hendin 4th ed. 472. 14x10 mm. Ex- Augustus Coins ([USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] on CoinTalk), 20 May 2020.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1271058[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1271059[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1271060[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1271061[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #ffffff"><font size="5">001640R</font></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4722654, member: 10461"][B][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5]Judaea: bronze lepton of Alexander Jannaeus, ca. 103-76 BC (the biblical "Widow's mite")[/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [ATTACH=full]1271059[/ATTACH] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][B]Obverse:[/B] Anchor, inscription. [B]Reverse:[/B] wheel with spokes or 8-pointed star. These coins circulated in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land']Holy Land[/URL] at the time of Christ and are believed to be the type mentioned in the Bible, in "[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite']the lesson of the widow's mite[/URL]". This example shows evidence of the way the blank flans were cast in strips, then cut before being struck into coins. The irregular [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchet']flan[/URL] here is shaped rather like a little jug. Hendin 4th ed. 472. 14x10 mm. Ex- Augustus Coins ([USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] on CoinTalk), 20 May 2020. [ATTACH=full]1271058[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1271059[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1271060[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1271061[/ATTACH] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia] [COLOR=#ffffff][SIZE=5]001640R[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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