Sela - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Two

Bar Kokhba's second-year silver issues were struck directly over Roman imperial tetradrachms — predominantly Trajanic and Hadrianic cistophori and Syrian tetradrachms — because the revolt had no independent silver supply. The original Roman types were not fully obliterated by the Jewish dies, and traces of the undertype frequently survive on the edges and in the fields. Hendin 1386 represents the most commonly encountered second-year sela type, though "common" is relative for a coinage produced during three years of siege warfare against the full force of the Roman legions.

The revolt was crushed by 135 AD. Hadrian subsequently plowed Jerusalem and refounded it as Aelia Capitolina, banning Jews from entering on pain of death.