unlikely that the point of the demonstration is to show that, as Jews who possess coins with human images, they violate the Law; in that day almost all Jews probably used such coins.40 Nor is the issue that they violate the prohibition against images in the temple itself; in the forecourt of the temple, where the booths of the money changers stood, their Tiberius coin will not have been the only one.41 The point is rather that by using a coin that is invested with political and religious symbols