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Small bronze - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Two
| Issuer | Bar Kokhba Revolt |
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| Year | 133-134 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a date palm tree with a broad, spreading crown of fronds rendered in stylised relief, the trunk flanked by two clusters of dates or fruit bunches at the base. Hebrew letters appear to either side of the trunk within the field. The design is characteristic of the overstruck Bar Kokhba bronze coinage, with the irregular flan exhibiting typical hammered workmanship of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck during the second year of the Bar Kokhba revolt against Rome, this issue was almost certainly produced by overstriking earlier Roman provincial bronzes — a practical necessity for a rebel administration with no access to raw metal supplies and an urgent need to assert independent authority through coinage. The revolt's second year, 133–134 CE, saw Hadrian dispatch Julius Severus from Britain to suppress the uprising, a campaign that ultimately killed an estimated half-million Judeans and resulted in the wholesale renaming of the province to Syria Palaestina.
The use of "bar Kosevah" in modern scholarship reflects the actual family name; "bar Kokhba" — Son of a Star — was the messianic epithet applied by Rabbi Akiva.