Coin of Roman Procurator Antonius Felix of Judea, 52 CE - 60 CE
Bronze-Gold
FJ.5191
Mounted in an 18 karat gold pendant. Following the exile of Herod Archelaus in 6 A.D., the land of Judea was annexed to the roman province of Syria. This territory...
Mounted in an 18 karat gold pendant.
Following the exile of Herod Archelaus in 6 A.D., the land of Judea was annexed to the roman province of Syria. This territory now came under the domination of a roman administration based at Caesarea. The administration w as headed by a procurator, who w as responsible to the Roman governor of the province of Syria. Antonius Felix, one of these procurators of Judea, issued coins during only two of the nine years of his procuratorship. This handsome coin features a depiction of a six-branched palm tree bearing two bunches of grapes, and an ins6ription. The reverse side of the coin shows two oblong shields and two spears crossed, surrounded by an inscription. To wear this beautiful coin, framed in the radiant gold pendant, is to form a magical bond with a period in history that is unsurpassed in dynamism and passion.
Following the exile of Herod Archelaus in 6 A.D., the land of Judea was annexed to the roman province of Syria. This territory now came under the domination of a roman administration based at Caesarea. The administration w as headed by a procurator, who w as responsible to the Roman governor of the province of Syria. Antonius Felix, one of these procurators of Judea, issued coins during only two of the nine years of his procuratorship. This handsome coin features a depiction of a six-branched palm tree bearing two bunches of grapes, and an ins6ription. The reverse side of the coin shows two oblong shields and two spears crossed, surrounded by an inscription. To wear this beautiful coin, framed in the radiant gold pendant, is to form a magical bond with a period in history that is unsurpassed in dynamism and passion.