Maccabean (Second Temple Period) Widow's Mite (135-37 BCE) Prutah NGC(HG)

In 167 BCE, Judah the Hammer—Maqqaba in Aramaic; hence ”Maccabee“—led a rebellion against the forces of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who had slaughtered thousands of Jerusalem Jews by invading on the Sabbath.

Judaea|Biblical and Religious|Jewish

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