Ae Prutah #1, Pontius Pilate, 31 Ad

I forgot to post pictures of my first-ever ancients purchase 2-3 months ago. I was looking for a modest lot of biblical coins because I want to send a coin of that era to a dear old friend as a special gift. He's not a coin collector but I think he'd be fascinated by a coin which could, in theory, have once been in the hand of Jesus or another biblical contemporary. The lot included 9 coins from 6 procurators, minting dates from ~6 AD to 54 AD. After I've studied them I'll pick one and send it to my friend. If I can part with one by then-- I tend to get attached to them after study.

Admittedly, I didn't know anything about these Roman procurator coins when I bought them-- still don't, but I'm going to start reading about them this weekend. At my first foray searching for similar individual coins currently for sale, I am pleased with the price for the lot of 9.

Here's the first:


Pontius Pilatus, procurator of Judea under Tiberius 26-36 AD
AE prutah, 16mm, 2.5gm
TIBEP10V KAICAPOC, lituus
LIH in wreath (year 18, 31 AD)
Mesh 334, Hendin 650, AJCII 283 supp. v.24

Attribution mostly copied from the 2x2.

Edited to add: the 2x2 says Hendin 650; the auction description says Hendin 1342, I don't know anything about attribution sources so I don't know which is correct)