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Zuz - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Two
| Issuer | Judea (Bar Kokhba Administration) |
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| Year | 133-134 |
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| Reference(s) | BMC Greek#16 |
| Obverse description | A wreath composed of olive or laurel branches with berries, arranged in a circular form and filling the central field, bordered by a dotted inner circle. The Hebrew inscription naming Simeon (שמען) appears within the wreath in paleo-Hebrew script. The design is struck in relief on a broad, irregular flan typical of Bar Kokhba revolt coinage, with the wreath rendered in a stylized, provincial hammered style. |
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| Reverse script | Hebrew (Paleo-Hebrew) |
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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.