HEROD THE GREAT JUDAEA SAMARIA AE 2 PRUTOT RY3 POPPY CADEUCEUS H488/1171 c40BC

Description: HEROD THE GREAT JUDAEA SAMARIA AE 2 PRUTOT AE19 3.92g 12h YEAR 3 POPPY CADEUCEUS H488/1171 DCA806 DCA2990 DATED c40BCA HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT COIN AND TOUGH TO FIND IN THE MARKETPLACEFREE SHIPPING AND NO RETURNS HENDIN ESTIMATES THE DATE TO BE 40 BC BASED ON THE 3RD YEAR OF HIS TETRARCHY AND STATES THEY WERE PROBABLY ISSUED FOR SEVERAL YEARS WITH THE SAME DATE. SOME ARGUE THAT IT WOULD BE 37BC, THE 3RD YEAR OF HIS KINGSHIP. COHEN STATES THAT HOOVER INDICATED THAT 38 OR 40 ARE BOTH POSSIBLE AND LISTS BOTH DATES. Herod the Great was a Roman client-king of Judaea. His epithet ‘The Great’ has been disputed by many who claim he was a madman who murdered his own family members along with many rabbis and ordered the ‘Massacre of the Innocents’. He was born in 74 BC, son of Antipater the Idumaean and Cypros the Nabatean. He was appointed Governor of Galilee in 49 BC, and was named Tetrarch of Galilee in 43 BC after poisoning his father. In 41 BC, his nephew Antigonus took the throne from him and Herod fled to Rome where he was elected King of the Jews by the Senate in either 40 or 39 BC, depending on which historian you believe. This has caused some confusion as to the actual year of this coin (it could be 38 BC, if you follow the dating set down by Josephus). In 37 BC, Herod and the Romans captured Jerusalem, executed Antigonus and Herod became sole ruler of Judaea, so many numismatists contend that was the perfect year to strike a series of dated coins. His most ambitious project was the expansion of the 2nd Temple but he is also well known for building the Fortress at Masada and founding Caesarea Martima. He appears in Matthew, where he shows his true nature, by passing a death sentence on all baby boys under 2 years old after the Wise Men tell him the King of the Jews has been born in Bethlehem. Herod had 10 wives and 14 children, three of whom went on to rule and one (Salome, his daughter) who achieved her own historical fame. Herod died in 4BC from chronic kidney disease. In 2007, Israeli archaeologists announced they had found his tomb.Important events in the year 40 BC: Calvinus and Pollio become Roman Consuls; Lucius Antonius surrenders to Octavian at Siege of Perusia; Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus divide Roman Republic into ‘Spheres of Influence”; Athenodorus encounters 1st recorded ‘Poltergeist’ in Athens; Parthians conquer Jerusalem; Births: Cleopatra and Antony have twinsOTHER COINS DATED 40 BC PER MY RESEARCH (NOTE THAT THE DATE IS INCLUDED THAT APPEARS ON THE COINS):ALEXANDRIA KLEOPATRA VII TETRADRACHM KRY13 1151ANTIOCH TETRADRACHM CE10 276APAMEA AE20 ANTONIAN YR 2 315ARMENIA ARTAXATA ARTAVASDES II DRACHM RY17 697BOSPORUS ASANDER AV STATER RY8 515CHARACENE ATTAMBELOS TETRADRACHM SE273 450ELYMAIS SELEUKIA ON THE HEDYPHON KAMNASKIRES V TETRADRACHM SE273 468GADARA AE17 PE24 967LAODIKEA TETRADRACHM CAES 10 328 AE20 331OARTHIAN AUTONOMOUS AE12 SE273 428PARTHIA SELEUKIA PHRAATES IV SE273 TETRADRACHM 364PTOLEMAIS AKE AE23 CAES 10 672 AE24 673SIDON TETRADRACHM EOS71 871 TYRE SHEKEL EOT87 946 ½ SHEKEL 948

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