A silver denarius ('Zuz'), Bar Kokhba Revolt. Obv.: Bunch...
A silver denarius ('Zuz'), Bar Kokhba Revolt. Obv.: Bunch of grapes with small branch and leaf, surrounded by paleo-Hebrew inscription ' Shimon'. On left margins, vestiges of Greek inscription of the original coin of Trajan from Bostra on which this coin was struck. Rev: Two trumpets surrounded by the inscription ' for the freedom of Jerusalem'. Undated coin.
132/5 C.E. 2.75 grams, 18¾ mm, axis 1. Cf. Ya'akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem 2001), pl. 70, no. 277.
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A silver denarius ('Zuz'), Bar Kokhba Revolt. Obv.: Bunch of grapes with small branch and leaf, surrounded by paleo-Hebrew inscription ' Shimon'. On left margins, vestiges of Greek inscription of the original coin of Trajan from Bostra on which this coin was struck. Rev: Two trumpets surrounded by the inscription ' for the freedom of Jerusalem'. Undated coin.
132/5 C.E. 2.75 grams, 18¾ mm, axis 1. Cf. Ya'akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem 2001), pl. 70, no. 277.
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