KING HEROD THE GREAT COIN made from 100% olive wood

made from 100% olive wood and consisting of a total of 13 pieces

and the inscriptions are in Greek rather than Latin

with more than five-thousand foot soldiers killed

Others have also been found in Jordan

a cylindrical neck that widens toward the flat base

KING HEROD THE GREAT COIN made from 100% olive woodDuring the rule of John Hyrcanus II (63 40 BCE), an Idumaean convert to Judaism Antipater was appointed by Julius Caesar as the de facto administrator of Judaea. Idumaeans were descendants of Esau, living in Edom, a country bordering Judaea in what is now southwest Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. Antipater chose his younger son, Herod, who was still only a boy, as governor of Galilee. When the last Hasmonean king, Antigonus