A bronze coin, Bar Kochba Revolt – irregular type....

A bronze coin, Bar Kochba Revolt – irregular type. Obv.: Palm tree with seven branches and two clusters of fruit; below, Paleo-Hebrew inscription 'Shimon'. Rev: Vine leaf surrounded by the inscription 'for the freedom of Jerusalem'. The coin is undated.

This set of dies appears to be unrecorded. Both flan and the coin dies are unusually large.

132/5 C.E. 13.22 grams, 30½ mm, axis 11. For similar cf. Ya'akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem 2001), pl. 71, no. 290.