Middle bronze - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Two

Bar Kokhba's revolt against Rome — the third and final Jewish uprising — produced its own coinage as a deliberate assertion of independence, with rebels overstruck existing Roman provincial bronzes rather than operating purpose-built mints. Year Two issues are considerably more common than Year One, suggesting the revolt's administrative apparatus had stabilized enough by 133–134 CE to produce coins in meaningful volume before the catastrophic Roman reconquest under Julius Severus effectively ended Jewish settlement in Judea. Most specimens show ghost images of the host coin beneath the new design.