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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 2829816, member: 82616&quot;]I quite agree. Whether or not the story as written was a real event or not is irrelevant as far as the numismatic question is is concerned. However, what coin &#039;Mark&#039; had in mind <i>is</i> very relevant. The Gospel of Mark was written in highly polished Greek for a gentile Roman audience. &#039;Mark&#039; likely lived in Rome during the reign of Nero and he would have been very familiar with the denarius. The traditional &#039;Tribute Penny&#039; denarius is just as likely to be the coin Mark had in mind as any other denarius type struck in the first half of the First Century. Perhaps it was a denarius of Nero? We shall never know for certain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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