'With regard to the medal with [the inscription] BACIΛEΩC ANTIΓON, I am surprised as much by the language as by the characters used in this inscription. Isaac Vossius maintained that the common language of the Jews in the time of our Lord was Greek. I could never agree. If, however, Antigonus inscribed his coins with Samaritan characters in order to give them an archaic appearance, he could not have used the Greek language for [the purpose of generating] goodwill or [for personal] ambition, since the Jews were made to suffer so much by the Seleucids, and both [peoples] were already ruled by the powerful Romans. [The letters] LPI on the medal of Herod could not indicate "year 13" because in that case, it seems to me, it should have been ' (English translation from Minc 1985, pp. 114)