Lot 28
Judaea, Hasmonean Kingdom. Mattathias Antigonos (Mattatayah). Æ Prutah (1.89 g), 40-37 BCE. Jerusalem. 'Mattatayah' (Paleo-Hebrew) within wreath; all within circular beaded border. Rev. Double cornucopiae adorned with ribbons, pomegranate between horns, within circular beaded border. (Hendin 1167) Very Rare. Dark green-brown patina with light earthen deposits. Choice very fine. Estimate $800UP
Purchased privately from D. Hendin at the NYINC, December 1990.
This prutah of Mattathias Antigonus consciously looks back to the issues of John Hyrcanus I and other Hasmonaean ancestors as a means of casting himself as the legitimate king of the Jews when Herod and the Romans sought to remove him and bring an inglorious end to the Hasmonaean dynasty.
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