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Zuz - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Two
| Issuer | Judea |
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| Year | 133-134 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | שמ ע (Translation: Sm` (abbreviating Simon)) |
| Reverse description | A three-stringed lyre (kinnor) with a rounded body adorned with a row of pellets along its base, depicted frontally at centre, its strings rendered as vertical lines between two upright arms. The Hebrew inscription שב לחרת ישראל (Year two of the freedom of Israel) is distributed around the lyre in the field, written in paleo-Hebrew script. The whole design is enclosed within a beaded border. The coin is struck over a Roman denarius, with traces of the host coin's design occasionally visible in the field. |
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Struck during the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome — known in rabbinic literature as the Bar Kokhba Revolt — these coins were produced by overstriking existing Roman provincial silver, which is why the fabric occasionally shows ghosted traces of the host coin beneath the Jewish design. The revolt's administration, operating out of the Judaean Desert, maintained enough organizational coherence to run a functioning mint for nearly three years.
Year Two corresponds to 133–134 CE, the middle and arguably most militarily active phase of the revolt, before Roman reinforcements under Hadrian's general Julius Severus began systematically reducing the rebel strongholds.