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SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - CESAR COIN = JFK,JR
Plutarch records that at one point, Caesar informed the Senate that his honours were more in need
of reduction than augmentation, but withdrew this position so as not to appear ungrateful. He was given the title Pater Patriae
("Father of the Fatherland"). He was appointed dictator a third time, and then nominated for nine consecutive one-year terms
as dictator, effectually making him dictator for ten years. He was also given censorial authority as praefectus morum (prefect
of morals) for three years.
The Senate named Caesar Dictator Perpetuus, "dictator for life" or "perpetual dictator".
Roman mints printed a denarius coin with this title and his profile on one side, and with an image of the goddess Ceres and
Caesar's title of Augur Pontifex Maximus on the reverse. While printing the title of dictator was significant, Caesar's image
was not, as it was customary to print consuls and other public officials on coins during the Republic.
According to
Cassius Dio, a senatorial delegation went to inform Caesar of new honours they had bestowed upon him in 44 BC. Caesar received
them while sitting in the Temple of Venus Genetrix, rather than rising to meet them. According to Dio, this was a chief excuse
for the offended senators to plot his assassination. He wrote that a few of Caesar's supporters blamed his failure to rise
on a sudden attack of diarrhoea, but his enemies discounted this in observing that he had walked home unaided.
Biography
Copper coin of Herod, bearing the legend "Basileus Herodon" on the obverse and a Macedonian sun-symbol on the reverse.
Herod the Great was born around 73 BC. He was the second son of Antipater the Idumaean, a high-ranked official under Ethnarch Hyrcanus II, and Cypros, a Nabatean.[3] A loyal supporter of Hyrcanus II, Antipater appointed Herod governor of Galilee at 25, and his older brother, Phasael, governor of Jerusalem. He enjoyed the backing of Rome but his excessive brutality was condemned
by the Sanhedrin.
In 43 BC, following the chaos caused by Antipater offering financial support to Caesar's murderers,
Antipater was poisoned. Herod, backed by the Roman Army, executed his father's murderer. Afterwards, Antigonus, Hyrcanus' nephew, tried to take the throne from his uncle. Herod defeated him and then married
his teenage niece, Mariamne (known as Mariamne I), which helped to secure him a claim to the throne and gain some Jewish
favor. However, Herod already had a wife, Doris, and a three-year-old son, Antipater III, and chose to banish Doris and her child.
In 42 BC, he convinced Mark Antony and Octavian that his father had been forced to help Caesar's murderers. Herod was then named tetrarch of Galilee by the Romans. However, many of the Jews were very upset by this since most Jews did
not consider Herod to be a true Jew. The Idumaean family, successors to the Edomites of the Hebrew Bible, settled in Idumea, formerly known as Edom, in southern Judea. When the Maccabean John Hyrcanus conquered Idumea in 140–130 BC, he required all Idumaeans to obey Jewish law or to leave;
most Idumaeans thus converted to Judaism. While King Herod publicly identified himself as a Jew and was considered as such by some,[4] this religious identification notwithstanding was undermined by the Hellenistic cultural affinity of the Herodians, which would have earned them the antipathy of observant Jews.[5]
In 40 BC Antigonus tried to take the throne again with the help of the Parthians, this time succeeding. Herod fled to Rome to plead with the Romans to restore him to power. There
he was elected "King of the Jews" by the Roman Senate.[6] In 37 BC the Romans fully secured Judea and executed Antigonus. Herod took the role as sole ruler of Judea and took
the title of basileus (Gr. Βασιλευς) for himself, ushering in the Herodian Dynasty and ending the Hasmonean Dynasty. He ruled for 34 years.
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  John F. Kennedy Jr. New York U.S. Statehood Quarter
- Full color permanent fused image of JFK, Jr.
- New York Quarter represents the hometown and residence of JFK, Jr.
- Authentic & Genuine colorization process pioneered the Merrick Mint
- Genuine Legal Tender" out-of-issue" 2001 New York State Quarter struck by
the U.S. Mint.
- U.S. Mint's State Quarter program is the #1 collectible in U.S. History.
- Coin comes displayed in acrylic airtight coin holder within a felt
fitted coin Jewel Case.
- Certificate of Authenticity Included.
- Limited Edition.
- SEE LINK FOR JFK,JR COIN http://www.merrickmint.com/jofkejrnewyo.html
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