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The commemorative coin, dating back to 2022, bears the image of the then-new monarch on one side and the Royal Coat of Arms on the reverse.
On a day in April, not a single history buff roamed between the columns of the palace of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee; no one was strolling through what remains of the Byzantine cathedral ...
Imagine a busy marketplace where traders exchange goods, their coins carrying the history of kings and empires. In medieval India, coins weren’t just money– they showed power, culture, and change.
Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this week. The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands ...
Trump- and Melania-themed digital tokens minted billions on paper for the first family while raising conflict-of-interest and foreign influence concerns.
According to Bar, in addition to the collection of 160 coins, other Hasmonean period coins were also discovered during the excavation, bringing the total number of coins found at the site to over 200.
A gold coin from the first century B.C.E. featuring Brutus, the close ally and assassin of Julius Caesar, is anticipated to sell for more than $1.1 million at an auction in Switzerland.
Archelaus, like Herod Antipas, was a son of Herod the Great, and was the governor of Judaea. It is not clear from the historical record or from Matthew’s text why Joseph fears Archelaus.
Herod Antipas, who John would eventually denounce for his grave sin of stealing and marrying his brother's wife Herodias, would act on vengeance, and order his head delivered on a silver platter.
Herod Antipas got Galilee. As the steward of this vacillating puppet-king, Chuza was an influential major-domo, like the White House chief of staff but on a smaller scale.