Obv.: Paleo-Hebrew inscription in wreath: Yehohanan the High Priest and council of the Jews. Above it, the Greek letter A (Alpha). Rev.: Double cornucopia with a pomegranate between horns. The inscription is complete and clear. 2.20 grams, 15 mm, axis 12. Cf. Ya’akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (New York 2001), pl. 5 sub-group A2. After the ‘Maccabaean Revolt’, the Hasmonaean kingdom was founded which lasted for just under a hundred years. The alphabet employed was not the square Hebrew script current at the time, but the script from the First Temple period, implying a connection between the Hasmoneans and the First Temple. The symbols employed show a clear Hellenising trend.