Judaea. Roman procurators. Valerius Gratus under Tiberius, AD 15-26. AE prutah (15mm, 2.23g) Jerusalem, AD 18, in the name of Tiberius and his mother Julia Augusta (Livia). ΙΟΥ-ΛΙΑ L-E (year 5), palm branch. / TIB KAI CAP within wreath. Hendin 646. RPC I 4965.

From the collection of Dr. Carl Hampf. MD Carl Alarik Hampf, b. 1905 in St. Petersburg, d. 1992 in Karjaa, Finland, was a well-known member of the Finnish Numismatic Society. He specialized in coins from the Biblical lands.

F-VF, earthen encrustations