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Judaea, Bar Kochba Revolt. Æ Small Bronze
 ShM`WN
Simon in Paleo-Hebrew, seven-branched palm tree with two bunches of dates. 

L-HRWT YRWShLM
For the freedom of Jerusalem (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with branch and small leaf.



Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE).

19mm; 4.46g

Hendin 6467 (6th); Hendin 1440 (5th)

All Bar Kokhba coins are over struck on contemporary coins circulating in Judaea at the time.   A mint has not been found, but Herodium has been suggested (by Barag) as the location for the "regular" mint and Jerusalem for the "irregular" issues.  

From David Hendin's "Guide to Biblical Coins 5th Edition":

"From the Roman point of view, both were irregular rebel mints.  For the Bar Kokhba administration the "irregular" mint was a second, subsidiary, mint operating not at the central mint but at a different location, and there is no reason to assume that it was considered to be irregular.  The occasional reference to these coins as "irregular" does not carry much weight.  In the eyes of the Greeks and Romans all Jewish coinage was no doubt considered "irregular coinage"


Ex-Pavlos S. Pavlou

Judaea, Bar Kochba Revolt. Æ Small Bronze

ShM`WN
Simon in Paleo-Hebrew, seven-branched palm tree with two bunches of dates.

L-HRWT YRWShLM
For the freedom of Jerusalem (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with branch and small leaf.



Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE).

19mm; 4.46g

Hendin 6467 (6th); Hendin 1440 (5th)

All Bar Kokhba coins are over struck on contemporary coins circulating in Judaea at the time. A mint has not been found, but Herodium has been suggested (by Barag) as the location for the "regular" mint and Jerusalem for the "irregular" issues.

From David Hendin's "Guide to Biblical Coins 5th Edition":

"From the Roman point of view, both were irregular rebel mints. For the Bar Kokhba administration the "irregular" mint was a second, subsidiary, mint operating not at the central mint but at a different location, and there is no reason to assume that it was considered to be irregular. The occasional reference to these coins as "irregular" does not carry much weight. In the eyes of the Greeks and Romans all Jewish coinage was no doubt considered "irregular coinage"


Ex-Pavlos S. Pavlou

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Nemonater   [Mar 19, 2021 at 09:01 PM]
Very cool
David Atherton   [Mar 19, 2021 at 09:27 PM]
Wonderful!

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