Prutah - Herod Agrippa I

Herod Agrippa I is the only ruler since the Hasmoneans to have governed a reunified Judea — a political achievement arranged almost entirely through personal relationships with Caligula and later Claudius in Rome. His coins were deliberately designed to circulate without offence among a Jewish population hostile to figural imagery, a concession his Herodian predecessors had not always bothered to make. The prutah series of 41–42 AD dates to the single year he held the full kingdom, before his sudden death in 44 AD ended Herodian rule permanently and returned Judea to direct Roman administration under procurators.