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Prutah - Eleazar the Cohen Year Three
| Issuer | Judea |
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| Year | 134-135 |
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| Value | 1 Prutah = 1/256 Shekel |
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| Obverse description | A tall, stylized palm tree with spreading fronds occupies the center of the flan, rendered in a characteristic provincial style. Hebrew inscription אלעזר הכוהן (Eleazar the Cohen) appears in the field on either side of the palm trunk, divided between left and right. The coin is struck on an irregular flan typical of emergency coinage produced during the Bar Kokhba Revolt. |
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| Obverse lettering | אלעזר הכוהן (Translation: ELEAZAR HACOHEN (Eleazar the Cohen)) |
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Struck during the third and final year of the Bar Kokhba revolt, this prutah belongs to a series issued when Roman forces under Hadrian were systematically reducing the last Jewish strongholds in Judea. Year Three coinage is considerably scarcer than Year One and Year Two issues — by that point, the mint's output was contracting as territory was lost. The attribution to Eleazar the Cohen, who appears on coins only from Years One and Two before vanishing from the record entirely, makes his name appearing on a Year Three piece a point of ongoing scholarly debate.