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, a 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. 14.47 grams, 26½ mm, axis 12. Cf. Leo Mildenberg, The Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War. Typos Band VI (Switzerland 1984), 36 (O8’/R26).
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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, a 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. 14.47 grams, 26½ mm, axis 12. Cf. Leo Mildenberg, The Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War. Typos Band VI (Switzerland 1984), 36 (O8’/R26).
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