ALEXANDER JANNAEUS AE PRUTAH___Ancient Judaea___Pomegranate & Double Cornucopia
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1H02 FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS A BEAUTIFUL BRONZE PRUTAH OF ALEXANDER JANNAEUS FROM 103 – 76 BC. THE SIZE IS 14.4 MM AND 1.78 GRAMS. OBVERSE – double cornucopia adorned with ribbons, pomegranate between horns REVERSE – Hebrew inscription, Yehonatan the High Priest and the Council of the Jews, within wreath Prutah were carelessly and crudely struck, usually off center and on small flans. Because they circulated for a long period, they are usually very worn. Legends are almost always unreadable.The prutah was of very low value and was used only in the poor province of Judea. At the time of Jesus it took 24 prutot just to buy a loaf of bread and the standardized value was equal to 1/192 of a Greek silver drachm. They were mass-produced, by casting the flans in strips and then carelessly striking the crude flans with even cruder dies. Little attention was paid to their quality and most are far off center, flatly struck or nearly unidentifiable. Alexander Jannaeus (also known as Alexander Jannai/Yannai) was king and high priest of Judea from (103 BC to 76 BC.). His Hebrew name was Jonathan (Yehonatan). Although an effective military leader, he is seen in Jewish tradition as a ruthless tyrant who brutally persecuted the early Pharisees.The third son of John Hyrcanus, Jannaeus came to the throne after the death of his brother Aristobulus
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