A bronze prutah of John Hyrcanus – with the title ‘Head’

A bronze prutah of John Hyrcanus – with the title ‘Head’
Obv.: Paleo-Hebrew inscription in wreath: Yehohanan the High Priest Head of the council of the Jews. The inscription is complete and clear. Rev.: Double cornucopia with a pomegranate between horns. 2.08 grams, 15 mm, axis 12. For a similar example see: Ya’akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (New York 2001), pl. 19 sub-group I6. After the ‘Maccabaean Revolt’, the Hasmonaean kingdom was founded which lasted for just under a hundred years. The alphabet employed was not the square Hebrew script current at the time, but the script from the First Temple period, implying a connection between the Hasmoneans and the First Temple. The symbols employed show a clear Hellenising trend.