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Money of The Bible
Coin not to scale
Due to primitive minting procedures, no two coins are exactly alike. Each coin
was individually hand stamped by the coiner who took the coin’s production
through all stages.
After heating and melting the silver, the coiner hammered it into a flat
planchet, which was then heated to almost red hot temperature. Using bronze
dies, the coiner then struck the top punch with a mallet to imprint the coins
images.
Individual coins contain about 14 to 14.5 grams of mostly 95% pure silver.
Because each coin was hand stamped, coin sizes and weights vary, but in general
they usually measure from 20 to 28 mm in diameter.
The coin’s obverse features a laureate head of a beardless Melqarth facing right
with a lion’s skin knotted around his neck. Melqarth was an iconic figure
personifying Tyre’s prevailing local religion.
The coin’s reverse features an eagle standing on the beak of a ship carrying a
single palm frond under wing. A club, which is the Tyre mint mark, fills the
left field along with the date. The Greek legend adorning the coin translates as
“Of Tyre, the holy and inviolable.”
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| COINS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT TIMES |
| SILVER HALF STATER: 561-546 B.C. |
| SILVER SIGLOI: 465-425 B.C. |
| TURTLES: 525 B.C. |
| OWLS: MIDDLE OF THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C. |
| COLTS: NO DATE |
| ARADOS SILVER DRACHIM: 161 B.C. |
| ARADOS SILVER TETRADRACHM: 80 B.C. |
| DOUBLE SHEKELS OF SIDON: MID-FORTH CENTURY B.C. |
| TYRE DIDRACHM: 332-275 B.C. |
| BYBLOS 1/8 SHEKEL: FOURTH CENTURY B.C. |
| TYRE HALF SHEKEL: 126 B.C.- 65 A.D. |
| PRE CHRISTIAN COINS LARGE AND SMALL: 375-333 B.C. |
| PTOLEMY 1 TETRADRACHM: 323 B.C. |
| SILVER OF SYRIA AND EGYPT: 198 B.C. |
| ANTIOCHUS IV SILVER TETRADRACHM: 175-164 B.C. |
| ANTIOCHUS IV COPPER: NO DATE |
| ANTIOCHUS VII TETRADRACHM: 138-129 B.C. |
| THE FIRST JEWISH COIN: NO DATE |
| EARLY JEWISH PRUTAH: 130-104 B.C. |
| COINS OF THE MACCABEES: 104-37 B.C. |
| HEROD I: 40-4 B.C. |
| SILVER DRACHM OF ORODES II: 57-38 B.C. |
| SILVER DENARIUS OF POMPEY: 63 B.C. |
| SILVER DENARIUS OF AUGUSTUS: 31 B.C.- 14 A.D. |
| COINS OF EMPIRE AND OCCUPATION: 64-54 B.C. |
| COINS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT TIMES |
| BRONZE COINS OF HEROD: NO DATE |
| SILVER TETRADRACHM OF AUGUSTUS: YEAR 28 |
| BRONZE COIN OF AUGUSTUS: NEAR TIME OF JESUS BIRTH |
| SILVER DENARII: 15 B.C. |
| COINS OF THE MAGI: 9 B.C.- 60 A.D. |
| BRONZE PRUTOT OF HEROD ARCHELAUS: 4 B.C.- 6 A.D. |
| COIN OF “THAT FOX” HEROD: NO DATE |
| BRONZE HERODIAN COINS OF PHILIP AND AGRIPPA: 4 B.C.- 44 A.D. |
| COINS OF HEROD AGRIPPA II: 55-95 A.D. |
| EARLY COINS OF THE PROCURATORS: 6-26 A.D. |
| COINS OF PONTIUS PILATE: 29-31 A.D. |
| COINS OF THE LATER PROCURATORS: 52-62 |
| FIRST-CENTURY MONEY AND TRADE |
| ANCIENT COINS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE: 325 B.C.- 21 A.D. |
| AGUSTUS: 14 B.C.- 14 A.D. |
| TIBERIUS: A.D. 14-37 |
| CALIGULA: A.D. 37-41 |
| CLADIUS: A.D. 41-54 |
| NERO: A.D. 54-68 |
| GALBA: A.D. 68-69 |
| OTHO: A.D. 69 |
| VITELLIUS: A.D. 69 |
| VESPASIAN: A.D. 69-79 |
| TITUS: A.D. 79-81 |
| DOMITIAN: A.D. 81-96 |
| NERVA: A.D. 96-98 |
| TRAJAN: A.D. 98-117 |
| COINS OF ROMAN PALESTINE: NO DATE |
| PARABLES, LESSONS, AND COINS |
| ROMAN SILVER DARIUS: A.D. 130 |
| LOST COIN: NO DATE |
| STATERS OF PHILIIP II: 359-336 B.C. |
| SILVER TETRADRACHM PF PTOLEMY III: 230 B.C. |
| LEPTA OR MITES: NO DATE |
| THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTIANITY |
| VESPASIAN: AROUND A.D. 70 |
| COINS OF TWO IMPERIAL PERSECUTORS: A.D. 42-64 |
| PRUTAH AND ROMAN 10TH LEGION BRONZE: NO DATE |
| COINS OF THE JEWISH REVOLTS: A.D. 132-66 |
| SECOND REVOLT OVERSTRUCK COINS: NO DATE |
| PERSECUTION AND PROTECTION: A.D. 218-305 |
| COINS OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN EMPEROR: NO DATE |
| COINS OF PHILIP AND OCTACILIA: A.D. 244-249 |
| MAGNENTIUS AND JULIAN II COINS: A.D. 350-363 |
| BYZANTINE IMAGES OF CHRIST: A.D. 685-711 |
| COINS WITH BIBLICAL THEMES |
| EARLY ANGELS IN SILBER AND GOLD: 450-400 B.C. |
| GREEK AND BYZANTINE ANGEL COINS: 485 B.C. & A.D. 602-610 |
| THE GOD OF ISRAEL: NO DATE |
| EZEKIEL’S WHEEL: 1680 |
| TWO OLD TESTAMENT SUBJECTS: A.D. 133-135 & A.D. 217-218 |
| EDMUND OF EAST ANGLIA: NO DATE |
| SAINT STEPHEN: NO DATE |
| LOUIS IX: NO DATE |
| SAINT ELIGIUS: NO DATE |
| HELENA: A.D. 326 |
| SAINT ZACHARIAS: A.D. 750 |
| SAINT STEPHEN OF HUNGARY: 1001-1038 |
| FRENCH, IRISH, AND ENGLISH COINS: 1300 AND 1682 |
| WIDOW’S MITE: NO DATE |
| FALSE SHEKELS: NO DATE |
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