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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 7482962, member: 72790&quot;]I have been involved in similar threads on this question as they have come up. For whatever it is worth, the archaeological record for denarii in circulation ca.30 AD is not well understood. Denarii of both Augustus and Tiberius show up in the record but seem to have been from finds several decades later than 30-33 AD. The silver coinage of Caesarea seems to have been in circulation in abundance from before Roman rule to well into the First Century AD (and well after that) and&nbsp; drachmas from Caesarea look quite a bit like the denarii from Lugdunum. As an example of this I have next to each other the traditional Tiberius Tribute Penny weighing 3.9 grams and one of the Caesarea drachmas I think may have been more likely to have been circulating at the time of Christ in Judea. As a well worn drachma it weighs 3.41 grams and has on the obverse the image of Tiberius&#039; son Drusus and on the reverse is Tiberius. Because the images of the two are the same size it can be difficult to distinguish the obverse from the reverse. This drachma coin is pictured and described in Seaby&#039;s Roman Silver Coins, Vol 2 on page two, where it is # 3, the version where the image of Drusus is bare of any inscription. On the side with Tiberius there is a Latin inscription (only partially legible here) TI. CAES. AVG. P. M. TR P.XXXIV. If these two coins were both in circulation ca. 32 or 33 AD I think they could have been seen by the average man-in-the- street in Judea as two examples of the same Roman coinage. The top coins are the images of Tiberius, (denarius, left, drachma right) on the bottom,&nbsp; seated Livia (a denarius) and&nbsp; Drusus (on the right) the drachma. Just thought I&#039;d put in my two pennies worth into the discussion.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294729[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1294730[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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