Auction 090
Gallery auction - archaeology, numismatics, Judaika, Eretz Israel, art and more
By Winner'S
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Sep 2, 2015
3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem, Israel
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LOT 121:
A bronze prutah of Alexander Jannaeus
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Sold for: $65
Price including buyer’s premium:
$
78
Start price:
$
65
Estimate :
$85 - $65
Buyer's Premium: 20%
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A bronze prutah of Alexander Jannaeus
obv: Anchor surrounded by Greek inscription AΛEΞA[NΔP]OY BAΣIΛEΩΣ (of King Alexander). Rev.: Eight points star in diadem; between the rays, paleo-Hebrew inscription ![121]()
(Yehonatan the King). 2.18 grams, 16 mm. Cf. Ya’akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (New York 2001), pl. 25 sub-group K3 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.
