Identifying Some Old Coins For My Dad... | Replica Judaean

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Sabre2th Valued Member United States 135 Posts	Posted 07/16/2011 11:01 am Anybody recognize this coin or at least the text? Thx, Tom Identified - moved to Exonumia forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

pls Rest in Peace United States 1729 Posts	Posted 07/16/2011 11:42 am The pix are too small for me to tell for certain, but the text looks to me like some kind of cypher and not "real" letters or characters. Report this Post to the Staff
Sabre2th Valued Member United States 135 Posts	Posted 07/16/2011 12:45 pm Enlarged and sharpened. You may be right. I've scanned hundreds of aplhabets and text examples and the closest I've found is some old Phoenician texts, but still not quite there.. Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 07/16/2011 1:28 pm This appears to be some kind of token. I believe the text is Aramaic. Report this Post to the Staff
Sabre2th Valued Member United States 135 Posts	Posted 07/16/2011 10:56 pm The samples of Aramaic I have don't seem to quite match. Forgot to mention that it is less than 1/2" dia. Thanks! Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16806 Posts	Posted 07/16/2011 11:54 pm I'm afraid this is not a genuine coin. It's a somewhat crude copy of an ancient Judaean coin, a prutah dating from the reign of priest-king Alexander Jannaeus, 103-76 BC. Original coins are much cruder; see this example from the Wildwinds database. On the original coins the inscription translates to "Yehonatan the High Priest and the Sanhedrin of the Jews". I'm not sure if the replica is supposed to bear a faithful transcription of the text. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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