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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1061820, member: 19463&quot;]Another major feature is that Tiberius was Emperor for about 16 years before the ministry of Christ using standard dating guesses.&nbsp; During that time he issued a very few denarii with a reverse of a chariot and then settled into the standard &#039;Livia&#039; reverse on the &#039;Tribute Penny&#039;.&nbsp; This lack of variation makes it 99% likely that any coin of Tiberius would be this type.&nbsp; No other emperor ruled so long with so few coin types.&nbsp; Certainly it is a fair question whether anyone involved in this story would recognize the difference between any portrait of any Roman and any other Roman (they all looked alike?).&nbsp; There are even those who suggest that the coin need not be a denarius offering the suggestion that it could have been a Greek drachm.&nbsp; Saying 100 of the Gospel of Thomas (a book excluded when the Bible codex was established) tells the Tribute Penny story specifying the coin was gold.&nbsp; For the record, the &#039;Tribute Penny&#039; type was also issued as a gold aureus and a couple thousand dollars will get you one of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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