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Middle bronze - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Two
| Issuer | Judea |
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| Year | 133-134 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | לחרות ירושלם (Translation: For the freedom of Jerusalem) |
| Reverse description | A wide lyre (nevel or chelys) of four or five strings depicted frontally at center, its resonating body rendered as a rectangular frame with crossbar and visible string attachments at top and bottom. The instrument's yoke arms extend upward on either side in slightly curved form, consistent with the nevel type as known from other Bar Kokhba bronzes. A Hebrew inscription is distributed in the field to the left and above the instrument. The engraving is bold and schematic, typical of the emergency coinage of the revolt. |
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Year Two of the Bar Kokhba Revolt saw Jewish rebels overstrike existing Roman provincial bronze — deliberately effacing imperial imagery with Jewish symbols. The choice was propagandistic as much as practical; new minting infrastructure was limited, and Roman coins were the most available planchets. Simon bar Kosiba's name appears in paleo-Hebrew, a conscious archaizing script invoking the ancient kingdom rather than the Hellenized present.
Hendin 1407 is among the more frequently encountered Bar Kokhba types, yet genuinely problem-free examples are scarce — the overstriking process rarely produced clean surfaces, and the underlying Roman type often ghosts through.