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- His coins carried no images, which would have violated Jewish prescriptions against idolatry.
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Herodian coinage were coins minted and issued by the Herodian Dynasty, Jews of Idumean descent who ruled the province of Judaea between 37 BC–92 AD. The dynasty was founded by Herod the Great who was the son of Antipater, a powerful official under the Hasmonean King Hyrcanus II.
Indeed, New Testament scholars have made incredible claims based on the coins of Antipas—for instance, that the branches on them reflect Antipas’s messianic aspirations or that the coins were minted as part of an exploitative economic scheme that Jesus’s movement arose to resist.
His coins carried no images, which would have violated Jewish prescriptions against idolatry. [25] When Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea from 26 to 36, caused offence by placing votive shields in the Antonia palace at Jerusalem, Antipas and his brothers successfully petitioned for their removal. [26]
Antipas was one of at least 14 children Herod the Great had by at least 8 wives. When Herod died in c. 4 BC, Antipas was given the Galilee and ruled that region where Jesus of Nazareth lived His entire life. Herod Antipas is mentioned 10 times in the New Testament.
Feb 21, 2020 · As Tetrarch of Galilee, Herod Antipas had the right to mint his own coins. The archaeological record reveals that he actually minted relatively few coins during his reign. Morten Hørning Jensen notes, “Herod Antipas’s coinage is telling for the impact (or lack of it) that he had on Galilee.
The Coinage of Herod Antipas provides a comprehensive, multifaceted and up-to-date re-examination of the coins of Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea between 4/3 BCE and 39/40 CE. Kogon and Fontanille classify about 800 coins by obverse and reverse dies.
A new coin type establishes that Herod Antipas did not wait 24 years before striking coins at his new mint of Tiberias, but apparently struck this coin 24 years earlier at Sepphoris.
