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Also, listen to the ANA's 'Money Talks' thing on the 'tribute penny':

http://realserver.csd.net:8081/ramgen/ANA/980407.rm

dm



At 01:45 PM 05/10/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Catherine Mori wrote:
>
> > I don't have access to this paper.  Could you tell me the upshot?  C.Mori
> >
>
>There are, if I recall correctly, some photos of the coins there. But the 
>data is this:
>
>The tax (referred to in Mk 12:13-17 and parallels)  was calculated, and 
>its payment conducted in, two types of denarii: first, from the inception 
>of the tax until
>15 C.E., in the denarius of Augustus, and then, from 15 C.E. onwards, in 
>that of Tiberius. The denarius of Augustus was a coin which bore on its 
>obverse a
>laureated head or bust of the emperor along with the inscription CAESAR 
>AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE (= Caesar Augustus, Divi Filius, Pater 
>Patriae, `Caesar
>Augustus, Son of God, Father of His Country'), and on the reverse a 
>depiction of the imperial princes, Gaius and Lucius, each with a spear in 
>his hand, which was
>set on a background of crossed spears, with a star representing heavenly 
>sanction, an image of the stipulum, the ladle employed by Roman priests in 
>their
>libations, and the litius of the augurate together with the 
>inscription  PRINCIPES IUVENTUTIS (`Leaders of Youth') also adorning the 
>depiction. The denarius of
>Tiberius was a coin which on its obverse bore both the legend TI CAESAR 
>DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS (= Tiberius Caesar Divi Augusti Filius Augustus, 
>`Tiberius Caesar, Son
>of the Divine Augustus, Augustus!') as well as an image of Tiberius 
>laureate, and on its reverse side a depiction of a seated lady (perhaps 
>Livia) as Pax with a
>palm(?) branch in her left hand and an inverted spear in her right, and 
>the inscription PONTIF MAXIM (= Pontifex Maximus, `High Priest' i.e., of 
>the Roman State)
>referring to Tiberius
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Yours,
>
>Jeffrey Gibson
>
>--
>Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)
>1500 W. Pratt Blvd.
>           Floor 1
>Chicago, Illinois 60626
>e-mail jgibson000@home.com

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