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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Judean & Biblical Coins| > |Jewish Revolts| > |Bar Kochba| > SH49484
Judaea, Bar Kochba Revolt, 132 - 135 A.D.
|Bar| |Kochba|, |Judaea,| |Bar| |Kochba| |Revolt,| |132| |-| |135| |A.D.|, All the coins of the Bar Kokhba Revolt are overstruck on circulating coinage. The coins were apparently struck at two mints, a central or "regular" and a subsidiary or "irregular" mint somewhere in the Judaean desert to the west of Jerusalem. - D. Barag, "The Two Mints of the bar Kokhba War," Israel Numismatic Journal 14 (2000-2), pp. 153 - 156.
SH49484. Bronze AE 20, Mildenberg 148, Meshorer TJC 225, Meshorer AJC II 7a, Meshorer AJC II 8, Hendin 6409a (R), Sofaer 26, VF, attractive well centered coin, minor edge defect, beautiful patina, central "regular" mint, weight 4.987g, maximum diameter 19.6mm, die axis 180o, year 1, 132 - 133 A.D.; obverse Paleo-Hebrew inscription (retrograde): "Eleazar the Priest", seven-branched palm tree with two small bunches of dates, top of tree bent to the left; reverse Paleo-Hebrew inscription: "Year 1 of the redemption of Israel", bunch of grapes on vine with small leaf upper left; rare; SOLD










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