Above, two bronze coins of Herod the Great, depicting a table with three curved legs, palm branches and the Greek inscription HPΩΔOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ (of king Herod). Below, two bronze prutot of Herod Archelaus, depicting a prow of galley, an anchor and an abbreviation of the words EΘNAPXHC (Ethnarch) and HPWΔOY (Herod). The Herodian dynasty founded by Herod the Great the ultimate political animal had a number of rulers, the most Jewish of them being Agrippa I. The coins struck by Herod himself were in accordance with Jewish religious sensitivities. Likewise his son Archelaus and his grandson Agrippa struck coins with symbols compatible with Judaism. By way of contrast Agrippa like his brother Antipas and son Agrippa II struck coins with portraits and pagan motifs for his gentile subjects.