A small bronze coin ('Issar'), Bar Kochba Revolt. Obv.:...
A small bronze coin ('Issar'), Bar Kochba Revolt. Obv.: Palm tree with seven branches and two clusters of fruit; below, Paleo-Hebrew inscription 'Eleazar the priest'. Rev: Bunch of grapes with small branch and leaf, surrounded by the inscription 'for the freedom of Jerusalem'. The letter Mem of 'Jerusalem' is missing. Undated coin.
132/5 C.E. 5.05 grams, 18 mm, axis 12. Cf. Ya'akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem 2001), pl. 72, no. 300.
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A small bronze coin ('Issar'), Bar Kochba Revolt. Obv.: Palm tree with seven branches and two clusters of fruit; below, Paleo-Hebrew inscription 'Eleazar the priest'. Rev: Bunch of grapes with small branch and leaf, surrounded by the inscription 'for the freedom of Jerusalem'. The letter Mem of 'Jerusalem' is missing. Undated coin.
132/5 C.E. 5.05 grams, 18 mm, axis 12. Cf. Ya'akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem 2001), pl. 72, no. 300.