Hasmonean coinage
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Hasmonean coinage refers to the coins minted by the Hasmonean kings. Only bronze coins in various denominations have been found; the smallest being a prutah or a half prutah.
Coin of Antigonus (40–37 BCE)
Coin of Alexander Jannaeus (103–76 BCE). Obv: Seleucid anchor and Greek Legend: BASILEOS ALEXANDROU "King Alexander". Rev: Eight-spoke wheel or starburst within diadem. Hebrew legend inside the spokes: "Yehonatan Hamelech" (Yehonatan the King).
Coin of Antigonus II Mattathias, depicting the Temple menorah
Hasmonean Judea
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Hasmonean Judea, also known in part of its history as the Hasmonean kingdom, was an independent Jewish state in Judea and its surrounding regions, during the Hellenistic era of the Second Temple perio
Hasmonean coinage
…Hasmonean coinage refers to the coins minted by the Hasmonean kings. Only bronze coins in various denominations have been found; the smallest being a prutah or a half prutah. One Roman silver denarius is associated with…
Hasmonean kingdom
Battle of Beth Zechariah in 162 BCE, where the Maccabean rebels suffered a temporary setback. Illustration by Gustave Doré in 1866.
Bronze prutah of John Hyrcanus: Hebrew legend "Yehohanan (John) the High Priest and the Council of the Jews" within a wreath; reverse with double cornucopiae and a pomegranate between the horns