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DOI article:Cieciela̢g, Jerzy: Countermarked coins of roman prefects of Judaea
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KRAKÓW 2004
JERZY CIECIELĄG
Kraków
COUNTERMARKED COINS
OF ROMAN PREFECTS OF JUDAEA
Information provided by countermarked coins issued by Roman pre-
fects of Judaea help gain insight into the organization of that province in
the first century AD1. As countermarks on imperial coinage have been
given comprehensive treatment, there is no need to offer a detailed ana-
lysis of coinage outside Judaea2. It will be useful to notę, however, that
occasions for countermarking are usually called „imperial" or „local."
The latter, being the morę numerous, are the morę elusive and harder to
define. Imperial events were mostly the emperohs visits to the province,
his yictories, or damnatio memoriae of former rulers. Local events occurred
Tt is customary to refer to governors in Judaea as procurators. However, it seems that in the years
6-41 AD, they borę the title of prefect, as is indicated by an inscription alluding to Pontius Pilate
found in Caesarea Maritima; cf. A. FROVA, „Uinscrizione de Ponzio Pilato a Caesarea", Rendiconti
deWInstituto Lombardo, Accademia Di Scienze e Lettere Estratto dai Rendiconti, Classe di Lettere 95 (1961),
pp. 419-434.
2 C.J. HOWGEGO, „Greek Imperial Countermarks" in: Studies in the Provincial Coinage ofthe Roman
Empire, London 1985, pp. 4-17.
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KRAKÓW 2004
JERZY CIECIELĄG
Kraków
COUNTERMARKED COINS
OF ROMAN PREFECTS OF JUDAEA
Information provided by countermarked coins issued by Roman pre-
fects of Judaea help gain insight into the organization of that province in
the first century AD1. As countermarks on imperial coinage have been
given comprehensive treatment, there is no need to offer a detailed ana-
lysis of coinage outside Judaea2. It will be useful to notę, however, that
occasions for countermarking are usually called „imperial" or „local."
The latter, being the morę numerous, are the morę elusive and harder to
define. Imperial events were mostly the emperohs visits to the province,
his yictories, or damnatio memoriae of former rulers. Local events occurred
Tt is customary to refer to governors in Judaea as procurators. However, it seems that in the years
6-41 AD, they borę the title of prefect, as is indicated by an inscription alluding to Pontius Pilate
found in Caesarea Maritima; cf. A. FROVA, „Uinscrizione de Ponzio Pilato a Caesarea", Rendiconti
deWInstituto Lombardo, Accademia Di Scienze e Lettere Estratto dai Rendiconti, Classe di Lettere 95 (1961),
pp. 419-434.
2 C.J. HOWGEGO, „Greek Imperial Countermarks" in: Studies in the Provincial Coinage ofthe Roman
Empire, London 1985, pp. 4-17.
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