Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Numismatic Research
Angaben zur Quelle:
15 (2020) 89-110
Keywords:
Coins, Ancient
;
Maccabees
;
Eretz Israel Antiquities
;
Eretz Israel Kings and rulers To 70 A.D.
Abstract:
In 1991, Ya‘akov Meshorer withdrew his 1967 theory that Alexander Jannaeus struck the first Hasmonean coins. Recently a scholar has attempted to resurrect the theory. This article argues that this attempt does not pass muster based on current evidence from archaeology, numismatics and the physical sciences. Various historical theories of Hasmonean chronology are examined and placed into the context of present knowledge, concluding firmly that the first Hasmonean ruler to mint coins was John Hyrcanus I.
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