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Cover illustration: (front cover) The reverse sides of five coins struck by Antipas. From left to right: (1) unit denomination from 29/30 CE, showing a palm branch (type no. 6), (2) unit denomination from 29/40 CE, showing a palm tree (type no. 18), (3) half-unit denomination from 33/4 CE, showing a palm branch (type no. 15), (4) quarter-unit denomination from 39/40 CE, showing a cluster of dates (type no. 20), and (5) half-unit denomination from 30/1 CE, showing a palm branch (type no. 11); this coin was changed into a weight in antiquity. The name of Herod Antipas and the date are inscribed on each coin.
(Back cover) The obverse and reverse faces of Antipas’ half-unit denomination from 20/1 CE (type no. 3). The enwreathed obverse inscription “Tiberias” and the aquatic reed on the reverse suggest that the coin type was struck to commemorate the foundation of the city Tiberias.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kogon, Aaron J., author. | Fontanille, Jean-Philippe, author.
Title: The coinage of Herod Antipas : a study and die classification of the earliest coins of Galilee / by Aaron J. Kogon, Jean-Philippe Fontanille ; foreword by Catharine Lorber.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018. | Series: Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, ISSN 1871-6636 ; volume 102 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018006482 (print) | LCCN 2018015808 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004362987 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004359611 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Coins, Roman–Palestine. | Jewish coins–Palestine. | Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee.
Classification: LCC CJ1375 (ebook) | LCC CJ1375 .K63 2018 (print) | DDC 737.4933–dc23
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