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Gold Ring Featuring a Bronze Coin of Maccabean King John Hyrcanus II - FJ.3350a
Origin: Jerusalem, Israel
Circa: 67
BC
to 40
BC
Collection: Jewish
Medium: Gold and Bronze
$3,000.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
This genuine ancient Jewish bronze coin has
been mounted in a modern 18 Karat gold ring.
With the decline in power of the ruling Seleucid
dynasty of Syria in the second century B.C., the
Hasmoneans began to assert a greater political
independence for the Jewish people. Upon the
death of Alexander Janaeus in 76 B.C., his widow
Salome Alexandra took over the reign of power.
However, because a woman could not hold the
office of high priest, this title was given to her
son by Jannaeus, John Hyrcanus II. When Salome
died in 67 B.C., a civil war broke out between
Hyrcanus and his brother Aristobulus II which
lasted four years, until the Roman general
Pompey intervened. Pompey then conquered
Jerusalem but left the powers of John Hyrcanus
as high priest intact. From this time onward, the
Romans took an active hand in the political
affairs of Judea. One of John Hyrcanus' chief
advisors was Antipater the Idumean who saw
that his own son Herod was eventually installed
on the throne after the death of Hyrcanus in 40
B.C.
- (FJ.3350a)
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