A small bronze coin ('Issar'), the first year of...
A small bronze coin ('Issar'), the first year of 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 ' year one of the redemption of Israel'.
132/3 C.E. 4.01 grams, 18¾ mm, axis 12. Cf. Ya'akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem 2001), pl. 65, no. 224.
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A small bronze coin ('Issar'), the first year of 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 ' year one of the redemption of Israel'.
132/3 C.E. 4.01 grams, 18¾ mm, axis 12. Cf. Ya'akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (Jerusalem 2001), pl. 65, no. 224.
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