Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Large bronze - Simeon bar Kosevah Year One
| Issuer | Judea |
|---|---|
| Year | 132-133 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Bar Kokhba Revolt ‒ Shekel (132-135) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | ירו שלם (Translation: Jerusalem) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Hebrew |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Struck in the first year of the Bar Kokhba revolt against Rome, this issue is among the most politically charged coinages of the ancient world. Simon bar Kosevah — later called Bar Kokhba, "Son of a Star," by his supporters — organized a mint that overstruck existing Roman provincial bronzes, a deliberate act of symbolic erasure. The host coins are often still detectable beneath the Jewish types, and their identification has helped scholars map the revolt's geographic reach.
Rabbi Akiva's declaration of Bar Kokhba as the Messiah gave the revolt extraordinary momentum. By 135 AD it was over, Jerusalem razed and renamed Aelia Capitolina.