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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2694891, member: 75525&quot;]I think the tribute penny is one of the better stories of the Bible. It is extra neat because I have a coin related to the story. I pasted the story from an on-line source, so I hope it is a reasonably good translation - </p><p>Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar</p><p>13 Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. 14 They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not? 15 Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”</p><p><br /></p><p>But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” 16 They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”</p><p><br /></p><p>“Caesar’s,” they replied.</p><p><br /></p><p>17 Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”</p><p><br /></p><p>And they were amazed at him.</p><p>Mark 12:13-17 New International Version (NIV)</p><p><br /></p><p>At the time Jesus told this stroy, only three Roman Rulers had placed their portrait on a coin AND used the name CAESAR: Julius, Octavian / Augustus and Tiberius. The coin Jesus held could have been from any of those rulers, but a Tiberius would have been more likely. Tiberius had only two reverse types and the seated Livia was far more common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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