DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Seven hills. The coin shows Rome seated on the seven hills of the city. Revelation 17:9 says the woman called Babylon sits on "seven mountains."
Why it’s interesting
After Rome destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD, the Jewish books 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch began to call Rome "Babylon," the name of the empire that had destroyed Jerusalem before.
Scholarly consensus
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