Herodian Dynasty, 40 BCE-96 CE. Agrippa I, 37-44. Æ-Prutah, year 6=41/2, Jerusalem; 2,69 g BACIΛЄWC AΓΡΙΠΑ around a baldachin with fringes//Three ears of corn, flanked by L - ς. Hendin no. 1244; Lykke 245 fig. 78; Meshorer, Treasury 231 no. 120; RPC I no. 4981.

Very fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 156.

Lykke 100 is right when she annotates that the baldachin/canopy traces back to the Assyrian kings and that in the case of Agrippa it may underline his royal dignity. At any rate, "the unusual motif does not seem to find any immediate parallels anywhere else". In the Greek world baldachins were used to cover altars and the statuettes of gods, cf. W. Held, Wo stand die Hera von Samos?, IstMitt 45, 1995, 13-23, esp. 20 and M. Weber, Baldachine und Statuenschreine, Rom 1990.