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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2829720, member: 42773&quot;]Of course, there&#039;s no information that proves the Tribute Penny is any one type or another - one wishes that Jesus would also have asked, &quot;Now tell me who is on the reverse of the coin!&quot; But at 1:45, Butcher says that there is no evidence that the denarius of Tiberius circulated in Judaea. Being a lowly novice, I hate to argue with someone like Butcher, but how does he account for the Isfiya hoard discovered in northern Israel in 1960? Although the exact composition of the hoard is lost, Meir estimates that it contained 4,500 coins comprised of approximately 3,500 tetradrachms of Tyre, 1,000 didrachms of Tyre, and 160 early Imperial denarii of Augustus and Tiberius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, it would not have been necessary for Imperial denarii to actually <i>circulate</i> in Judaea for them to exist in Judaea. Many provincial Roman monetary systems were closed, meaning that visitors from Rome had to exchange their coins for local issues - that&#039;s part of the reason money changers existed. Perhaps the reason we don&#039;t find imperial denarii sprinkled liberally over Israel is that they had to be turned in for shekels and prutoh.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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