ANCIENT JUDAEA HEROD ARCHELAUS AE HALF PRUTAH 13mm 1.3g 6h H506/1197 BIBLE RULER

Description: ANCIENT JUDAEA HEROD ARCHELAUS 4BC-6AD AE HALF PRUTAH 13mm 1.3g 6h H506/1197 RPC1 491b SHARP STRIKE 35% FLAT MUCH NICER THAN OTHERS BEING OFFERED RARE RULER, ARCHELAUS ONLY ISSUED 6 DIFFERENT TYPES DURING HIS REIGNPROW OF GALLEY WITH H BELOW / EON (ETHNARCH) IN WREATHIN THE 4TH EDITION OF A GUIDE TO BIBLICAL COINS BY HENDIN, THIS COIN (H506) IS REFERRED TO AS AN AE LEPTONBUT IN THE 5TH EDITION (H11970 HE CHANGED THAT TO AN AE HALF PRUTAH MATTHEW 2:22 BUT WHEN HE (JOSEPH) HEARD THAT ARCHELAUS DID REIGN IN JUDAEA IN THE ROOM OF HIS FATHER HEROD,HE WAS AFRAID TO GO THITHER, AND BEING WARNED IN A DREAM, HE WITHDREW TO THE DISTRICT OF GALLILEE... ARCHELAUS WAS THE ELDEST SON OF HEROD BY HIS SAMARITAN WIFE MALTHACE. HE WAS NAMED IN HEROD'S WILL TO BE KING OF JUDAEA AND SAMARIA, BUT HEROD'S TITLE WAS NOT HEREDITARY, SO AUGUSTUS HAD TO CONFIRM IT. THERE WERE TAX RIOTS AGAINST ARCHELAUS TROOPS WHICH WERE INTENSIFIED BY A HUGE INFLUX OF PILGRIMS INTO JERUSALEM FOR THE PASSOVER. ARCHELAUS LOST HIS COOL AND SENT HIS SOLDIERS IN, KILLING 3000 JEWS. THEN THERE WAS A BITTER POWER STRUGGLE BETWEEN ARCHELAUS AND HIS BROTHER ANTIPAS SO ARCHELAUS TRAVELLED TO ROME TO PLEAD HIS CASE. AUGUSTUS ALTERED THE TERMS OF HEROD'S WILL AND NAMED ARCHELAUS ETHNARCH OF JUDEA, SAMARIA AND IDUMAEA. PHILIP RECEIVED THE TITLE OF BATANAEA, TRACHONITIS AND SOME OTHER MINOR LANDS AND ANTIPAS WAS NAMED TETRARCH OF PERAEA AND GALILEE. AUGUSTUS PROMISED THAT ARCHELAUS WOULD BE KING IF HE GOVERNED WELL. BUT ARCHELAUS TREATED THE JEWS AND SAMARIANS BRUTALLY AND HE WAS BANISHED TO VIENNA AND HIS PROPERY WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE IMPERIAL TREASURY OF ROME. FREE SHIPPING IN US. I WILL SHIP OVERSEAS

Price: 90 USD

Location: Glendale Heights, Illinois

End Time: 2023-12-31T18:11:08.000Z

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