TYPE Ancient Greece, Herodian dynasts of Judaea, Herod Archelaus (4 BC - 6 AD), bronze prutah, 1.47g DESCRIPTION . Obv: Prow of galley Rev: Greek date "ni-theta-epsilon" (partially retrograde "EThN", for Herod's title of "ethnarch" in wreath REFERENCE: Hen 506, SGI 5542v, LK 2485 GRADING: F / F+, encrusted mixed green patina ORDER INFO: G2874, $32 One of the few types that can be reliably related to the begining of the Christian era, in both the time and space. Of course, modern scholarship places the birth of Jesus of Nazareth sometime during or justy prior to 4 "BC", as that marks the established end of the reign of Herod the Great, a key figure in the Christmas narrative of the Gospels, but the present coin would have still circulated in the time and place of Jesus' childhood, and perhaps even his later ministry.