p>Obv.: Paleo-Hebrew inscription in wreath: Yehudah High Priest and council of Jews. The article letter He
is missing. Rev.: Double cornucopia with a pomegranate between horns. 2.00 grams, 14 mm, axis 12, Ya’akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (New York 2001), pl. 40 sub-group U1 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.