The coins are including cornucopias, paleo-Hebrew inscriptions (‘Mattathias the High Priest’) and Greek inscriptions (‘of King Antigonus’). 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.