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Need help IDing this ancient coin

Not familiar with ancients at all. I tried doing a google image search but wasn't able to find a match. Hoping someone here can help out. It's a mix of tin, copper and lead and a little smaller than US dime.



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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 11, 2022 4:22AM

    It is an ancient Judaean coin, issued in the name of King Herod the Great (the same Herod mentioned in the Christmas story in the Bible). In the top pic, which depicts an anchor, you can just see the beginning of Herod's name: "HP...", Greek for "ER...". On the other side of the coin we have crossed cornucopias.

    Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
    Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

    Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD. B)
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