A silver denarius ('Zuz'), the second year of Bar...
A silver denarius ('Zuz'), the second year of Bar Kokhba Revolt. Obv.: Bunch of grapes with small branch and leaf, surrounded by paleo-Hebrew inscription ' Shimon'. In the margins, vestiges of Greek inscription of the original coin of Trajan from Bostra on which this coin was struck. Rev: Lyre with three strings surrounded by the inscription ' year two of the freedom of Israel'.
133/4 C.E. 1.58 grams, 18 mm, axis 1. Cf. Ya'akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem 2001), pl. 66, no. 242
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A silver denarius ('Zuz'), the second year of Bar Kokhba Revolt. Obv.: Bunch of grapes with small branch and leaf, surrounded by paleo-Hebrew inscription ' Shimon'. In the margins, vestiges of Greek inscription of the original coin of Trajan from Bostra on which this coin was struck. Rev: Lyre with three strings surrounded by the inscription ' year two of the freedom of Israel'.
133/4 C.E. 1.58 grams, 18 mm, axis 1. Cf. Ya'akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem 2001), pl. 66, no. 242
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