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Zuz - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Three
| Issuer | Judea |
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| Year | 134-135 |
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| Weight | 3.57 g |
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| Reverse description | An upright palm branch (lulav) displayed centrally in the field, flanked by a Hebrew inscription reading 'Le-herut Yerushalayim' (For the freedom of Jerusalem). The palm frond is rendered with carefully incised leaflets along a central stem. The coin is an overstrike on a Roman denarius of Hadrian, and the ghosted laureate portrait of the emperor facing right is visible as an undertype beneath the Bar Kokhba devices. A plain or beaded border frames the design at the periphery of the irregular flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (134-135) |
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Year Three of the Bar Kokhba revolt — 134–135 CE — was the final year of Jewish resistance against Rome before Hadrian's legions systematically reduced the last holdout strongholds in the Judaean hill country. Coins from this year were struck on overstruck Roman provincial silver, the rebels having no independent silver supply. The host coins are frequently identifiable beneath the Jewish types, with Roman imagery incompletely effaced.
The revolt collapsed in 135 CE with the fall of Betar. Year Three issues consequently saw the least circulation of the three dated series.