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UCAI Problem
Other Coin Identification Problems
Read this first: coins over eyes Though the lepta (plural of lepton) minted in Palestine were Roman produced coins, the inscription of Tiberius Caesar would have been written in Greek as TIBERIOU KAISAROS. Was the C, where a K was expected, a misspelling? This was a problem that seemed to preclude positive identification until an actual lituus lepton was found with the aberrant spelling. Several have since been found. This anomaly seems to give credence to the coins identification. Barrie Schwortz, a technical photographers who photographed the Shroud, questions the coin identification. Having studied numerous high quality negatives of the Shroud taken in 1978, he concludes: My personal opinion, based on my photographic experience and my close examination of the Shroud itself, is that the weave of the cloth is far too coarse to resolve the rather subtle and very tiny inscription on a dime sized ancient coin...What he [Filas] saw as inscriptions, I saw as random shapes and noise. Such is the subjective nature of image analysis. For these reasons however, I cannot accept these coin "inscriptions" as viable evidence of a first century Shroud "date"...I do not argue that there appears to be something on the eyes of the man of the Shroud, and it may well be coins or potshards, since they were used in some first century burial rituals, but I do not believe we can resolve coin inscriptions. Many current authors, among them John C. Iannone in "Mystery of the Shroud of Turin" and Kenneth E. Stevenson in "Image of the Risen Christ," support the findings of the coins. Mary and Alan Whangers, in their book The Shroud of Turin: An Adventure in Discovery, make a strong case for the findings of the coins. Many shroud researchers, though perhaps convinced of the Shroud's authenticity, do not believe that there are coin images on the Shroud. "
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