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Zuz - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Two
| Issuer | Judea (Bar Kokhba Administration) |
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| Year | 133-134 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Hebrew (Paleo-Hebrew) |
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| Reverse description | A tall, slender palm branch (lulav) with fronds, depicted upright and centrally positioned in the field. The paleo-Hebrew legend surrounds the branch, reading in part around the circumference of the coin. The flan is irregular and the strike shows characteristic Bar Kokhba workmanship, with the design overstruck on an earlier Roman provincial denarius host coin. The overall composition reflects the nationalist iconography of the Jewish revolt coinage. |
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Struck during the second year of the Bar Kokhba revolt against Rome, this issue belongs to a coinage program that functioned as much as a political declaration as a monetary one — the administration systematically overstruck existing Roman provincial silver rather than building mint infrastructure from scratch. The host coins were Roman tetradrachms and local issues already circulating in Judea, deliberately effaced to erase Roman imagery.
Year Two issues are notably more abundant than Year One, reflecting the revolt's peak territorial control before Hadrian dispatched Julius Severus from Britain to lead the Roman counteroffensive. The suppression that followed in 135 CE effectively ended Jewish autonomous coinage in the region for nearly two millennia.