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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 5387366, member: 81887&quot;]Personally, I think that using the terms &quot;Tribute Penny&quot;, &quot;Widow&#039;s Mite&quot;, and &quot;Thirty Pieces of Silver&quot; is just a marketing ploy.&nbsp; Even if we assume that the Biblical stories mentioning these coins are accurate descriptions of real events, the precise numismatic identity of the coins was never the point.&nbsp; It&#039;s like asking &quot;In Citizen Kane, what brand of sled was Rosebud?&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>But, to answer the original question, my understanding is that any denarius of Tiberius with Livia seated reverse (that is, almost all of them) gets called a &quot;Tribute Penny&quot; by sellers.&nbsp; As the text in Mark only mentions that the coin had the &quot;image and superscriptions&quot; of Caesar, narrowing it down to a specific variety is impossible based on the existing text.&nbsp; (Or, maybe it was an older coin of Augustus still in circulation- the text doesn&#039;t specify Tiberius, it just says &quot;Caesar&quot;.&nbsp; But I haven&#039;t seen any sellers take this tack, even though it seems at least as plausible.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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