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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5387379, member: 19463&quot;]I can not accept the arguments about what coin was used.&nbsp;&nbsp; The story was written a generation after all the participants were dead using passed down data.&nbsp; The ID of the Tiberius type is based on the fact that Tiberius only issued a couple types of denarii and this one makes up 95% of his denarii.&nbsp; There is no reason that a Jew of that period would care between Augustus and Tiberius (all them dirty Romans look alike, don&#039;t they?).&nbsp; I have heard people propose that it could have been a Republican coin and, for the point of the story the only ID that matters is the one made by the guy who told Jesus who was on the coin.&nbsp; Jesus is not known as a great numismatist or as a user of cash money (remember he had Peter pay his Temple Tax using a coin from a fish).&nbsp; Only the most fundamental Christians require Biblical infallibility on all things numismatic.&nbsp; One of the apocryphal Gospels (Thomas?) specifies the coin was an aureus.&nbsp; For the intended purpose, it makes no difference.&nbsp; What does make a difference is that demand from Christian non-collectors has driven the price of this coin up to several times what it would be if it were just the most ordinary type of a long reign.&nbsp; Is this all hype to sell coins?&nbsp; Not <u>all</u>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Exactly!&nbsp; Did anyone ever name their sleds after literary characters?&nbsp; I had a sled 70 years ago but I do not recall the brand.&nbsp; I am obviously defective.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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