Pilate got off to a bad start by insisting Roman military standards, with their pagan emblems, should be set up in the temple in Jerusalem A small bronze coin from the time of Pilate bears the emblem of a staff and the name of Tiberius Caesar. It was minted in Jerusalem in the seventeenth year of Tiberius c AD 31—close to the year of the death of Jesus Name: A bronze coin of Pontius Pilate Origin and date: Judea, AD 26–36 Present location: The British Museum CM 1908.01-10-530