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Small bronze - Eleazar the priest Year One
| Issuer | Judea |
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| Year | 132-133 |
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| Reference(s) | Hendin 5ᵗʰ#1380 |
| Obverse description | A tall, centrally placed seven-branched palm tree (lulav) with two pendant clusters of dates, one on each side of the trunk, rendered in low relief characteristic of Bar Kokhba coinage. The tree trunk rises from a narrow base and spreads into symmetrical fronds. The Hebrew inscription appears in the fields flanking the tree on both sides, divided across the design. The overall style is schematic and emblematic, consistent with the nationalist Jewish iconography of the revolt period. |
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| Obverse lettering | אלעזר הכהן (Translation: Eleazar the priest) |
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Struck during the opening year of the Bar Kokhba revolt, this issue bears the name of Eleazar the priest — almost certainly the same Eleazar of Modiin described in rabbinic sources as the spiritual authority behind the uprising, though his precise role remains contested among scholars. The revolt, launched against Hadrian's refusal to permit Jewish rebuilding of the Temple and his plans to construct Aelia Capitolina on Jerusalem's ruins, produced a full autonomous coinage on a compressed wartime schedule. Nearly all Bar Kokhba bronzes were struck over existing Roman provincial coins, and the host flans frequently ghost through the new impressions.