A silver tetradrachm ('Sela'), the second year of Bar...
A silver tetradrachm ('Sela'), the second year of Bar Kokhba Revolt. Obv.: Tetrastyle facade of the Temple in Jerusalem. Between the pillars, an ark. The pillars stand on a high base resembling a horizontal ladder. Above the pillars, beam marked by two parallel dotted lines. Above, a star; on right and left, Paleo-Hebrew inscription ' Shimon'. Rev: Bundle of lulav with ethrog on left – the four species of the Festival of Tabernacles. Around, the inscription ' year two of the freedom of Israel'.
tetradrachms of Bar Kokhba Revolt are mostly restruck on Syrian tetradrachms of the reign of Trajan.
133/4 C.E. 14.53 grams, 25 mm, axis 12. Cf. Ya'akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem 2001), pl. 66, no. 233
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A silver tetradrachm ('Sela'), the second year of Bar Kokhba Revolt. Obv.: Tetrastyle facade of the Temple in Jerusalem. Between the pillars, an ark. The pillars stand on a high base resembling a horizontal ladder. Above the pillars, beam marked by two parallel dotted lines. Above, a star; on right and left, Paleo-Hebrew inscription ' Shimon'. Rev: Bundle of lulav with ethrog on left – the four species of the Festival of Tabernacles. Around, the inscription ' year two of the freedom of Israel'.
tetradrachms of Bar Kokhba Revolt are mostly restruck on Syrian tetradrachms of the reign of Trajan.
133/4 C.E. 14.53 grams, 25 mm, axis 12. Cf. Ya'akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem 2001), pl. 66, no. 233
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