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Zuz - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Two
| Issuer | Judea |
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| Year | 133-134 |
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| Weight | 2.77 g |
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| Reverse description | A single upright stalk of barley or wheat occupies the central field, flanked on either side by the paleo-Hebrew inscription שב לחר ישראל (Year two of the freedom of Israel) arranged in two columns. The legend encircles the central device and reads from right to left in accordance with Hebrew convention. The entire composition is enclosed within a beaded border. The design is typical of Bar Kokhba revolt silver coinage struck over earlier Roman provincial denarii, resulting in the irregular planchet characteristic of the series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck during the second year of the Bar Kokhba revolt, this issue belongs to a coinage program that was itself an act of political defiance — the rebels overstruck existing Roman provincial silver rather than building a mint from scratch. The host coins, typically Roman denarii or tetradrachms, were not always fully effaced, and traces of the underlying Roman imagery sometimes bleed through on weakly struck examples.
Year Two production coincides with the revolt's peak military momentum, before Roman forces under Julius Severus — recalled by Hadrian from Britain — began the systematic destruction of Judaean strongholds that ended resistance by 135 AD.