The Wonderful World of Ancient Coin Collecting
Coinage of the Roman Empire


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Set Details
Coin Description:
Grade: NGC Ch VF Strike: 3/5 Surface: 3/5
Owner: RAM-VT
 
Set Category: Ancients
Set Name: The Wonderful World of Ancient Coin Collecting
Slot Name: Coinage of the Roman Empire
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JUDAEA. Hellenistic period. Circa 333-285 BCE AR Quarter-Obol after c.294 BC JUDAEA, YEHUD Grade: Ch VF: Strike 3/5: Surface 3/5 Census - NGC does not provide census info on ancient coins :>( Obv.: Bare head of young male left Rev.: "YHD", Ptolemaic style eagle standing left This coin is too small to be placed in an NGC holder so NGC uses a photo certificate with a photo blowup. I am not set up to take a photo of something this small so what I did was take a photo of a photo. To give some idea of how ridiculously small this coin is – if it were pure silver you would need just a few short of 200 hundred to equal a troy ounce. The Hellenistic (AKA Persian period) Period in Judaea began with the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E. and continues until the Herodian Period. However, for various reasons (some technical) some prefer to divide this period and call the 2nd part of this period the "Hasmonean Period" which began under the Hasmonean ruler John Hyrcanus in 135 B.C.E. (see next coin). After Alexander the Great's death in 323 B.C.E. his territories were divided between his officers (the diadochi). Ptolemy ruled over the eastern part of the empire and Seleuces ruled over the western part. The Yehud coinage which started in the Persian period continued into the beginning of the Hellenistic period. Although the motif "YHD" was kept, the devices (pictures or images on a coin) were changed. There are some very rare specimens that bear the portrait of Ptolemy I and/or Ptolemy II. Both the Ptolemaics and the Seleucids struck coins in or around Israel. For the Ptolemaics coins were struck at Joppa - modern day Yafo. The Seleucids struck coins at Ake Ptolemais - modern day Akko. The coins of Joppa and Akko are scarce except for a large bronze issue of Antiochus IV, which although it does not bear any symbol or mintmark or Akko, is considered to have been struck there. This attribution was given to these coins because a great number of them were found in Akko and the immediate surrounding areas. My cost for this coin was $170

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