A coin inscribed with “King Agrippa” was recently found by an Israeli boy on a school trip. This is the same Agrippa who had the Apostle James murdered and who jailed the Apostle Peter.
This fascinating story was recently featured in a news report filed by the Christian News Network
with an interview with ABR’s Director of Excavations, Dr. Scott Stripling, and ABR’s Director, Scott Lanser.
Dr. Stripling pointed out that the Agrippa coin that was discovered was the same type of Agrippa coin discovered by ABR’s archaeologists at Khirbet el-Maqatir (the site ABR believes is the Conquest city of Ai). Dr. Stripling wrote about the Agrippa coin discovered at Maqatir in an article for ABR’s
Bible and Spade magazine entitled,
Maqatir Monastery Money, which we share here as our bonus article for the month of February.