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Zuz - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Three
| Issuer | Judea |
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| Year | 134-135 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Three-stringed lyre (kinnor) depicted in the center of the field, rendered with detailed strings and a broad, rounded body, within a dotted border. The instrument is shown frontally with its characteristic yoke and resonator. The Hebrew inscription LEHEROT YERUSHALAYIM (לחרות ירושלם), meaning 'For the freedom of Jerusalem', surrounds the central device in the field. The flan is irregularly shaped, consistent with overstruck denarii of the Roman imperial period used as host coins during the Bar Kokhba Revolt. |
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| Edge | Plain (irregular) |
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Year Three of the Bar Kokhba revolt — 134–135 CE — was its last. Roman forces under Hadrian, reinforced by the general Julius Severus recalled from Britain, methodically reduced the rebel strongholds across Judea. The final stand came at Betar, which fell in 135 CE. Coins struck in Year Three are consequently the scarcest of the three dated issues, as production was cut short by the Roman reconquest before the year's minting could reach any meaningful volume.
Like all Bar Kokhba silver, this zuz was struck over an existing Roman denarius — the undercoin occasionally visible at the edges.