When Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire, Jerusalem and Judea fell under Greek control and Hellenistic influence. Under the Seleucids many Jews had become Hellenized and with their assistance tried to Hellenize Jerusalem, eventually culminating in a rebellion by the High Priest Matityahu ben Yoḥanan and his five sons, the Maccabees. As a result of the rebellion, Jerusalem became the capital of the independent Hasmonean Kingdom.
In 37 BC, Herod the Great captured Jerusalem after forty-day siege, ending Hasmonean rule. Herod ruled the Province of Judea as a client-king of the Romans and expanded the minting of coins to many denominations. What is today known as the "Old City" was laid out by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century, when he began to rebuild Jerusalem as a pagan city. He renamed it Aelia Capitolina.
Modern location: Jerusalem
Reverse: double cornucopia adorned with ribbons, pomegranate between horns
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Weight: 2.1 g
Reverse: Seleucid anchor; BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY
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Weight: 0.67 g
Reverse: Anchor in circle, BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY
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Weight: 0.71 g
Reverse: Anchor in circle; BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY
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Weight: 0.6 g
Reverse: Anchor within circle blundered barbaric imitation of Greek legend around
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Weight: 0.54 g
Reverse: double cornucopia adorned with ribbons, pomegranate between horns
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Weight: 1.4 g
Reverse: double cornucopia adorned with ribbons, pomegranate between horns
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Weight: 2.3 g
Reverse: Double cornucopia adorned with ribbons, pomegranate between horns
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Weight: 2.3 g
Reverse: legend within oak wreath; EΘ / AN (Ethnarch)
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Weight: 1.3 g
Reverse: 2 cornucopiae, caduceus between, dots above
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Weight: 1.9 g
Reverse: double cornucopia with pomegranate between horns
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Weight: 2.1 g
Reverse: eagle facing, head left, wreath in beak, jug between legs, thyrsos and ivy leaf below; ΔHMAPX EΞ YΠA TOC Π Π
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Weight: 10.4 g
Reverse: Wreath; LIH
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Weight: 1.5 g
Reverse: palm branch flanked by: IOY−ΛIA / L - ∆
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Weight: 2.1 g