Herod the Great & Herod Archelaus Prutot • Judaea • 1 Bronze Coin • 37 BC-6 AD

About

Struck in Jerusalem under Herod the Great and his son Archelaus, these bronze prutot moved through daily life in ancient Judaea.

They passed between merchants in narrow streets, families buying bread, and travelers arriving at the city’s gates. Hands held them without ceremony, focused on survival and routine, unaware of how long time would stretch ahead.

More than two thousand years later, these same coins remain.

Worn by use. Shaped by ordinary lives.

Quiet witnesses to a world that once breathed and moved around them.

You receive 1 authentic bronze coin, picked from the exact coins pictured.

Who held this before?

Picture Judaea at the turn of an era. Narrow streets alive with merchants and pilgrims. Roman authority looming over ancient traditions. The Temple standing at
the heart of everything, watched closely by kings who ruled at Rome’s pleasure.

This small bronze coin once carried real weight. It may have bought bread during the reign of Herod the Great, passed across a market stall beneath wary eyes. Years later, it could have circulated under Herod Archelaus, when unrest grew and trust in rulers thinned. Perhaps a family spent it quietly, trying to live between heavy taxes, faith, and fear of what came next. 

Hands shaped by obedience, resentment, and hope carried this coin forward. People who felt the ground shifting beneath their world. Their lives ended. Their rulers fell.

The coin endured.
Now it rests in your hand.

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