Zuz - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Two

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.