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Zuz - Simeon bar Kosevah Year Two
| Issuer | Judea |
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| Year | 133-134 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central device consisting of a bunch of grapes in three lobes suspended from a short branch, the branch bearing a single leaf to the left and a tendril to the right. The motif is rendered in low relief characteristic of Bar Kokhba coinage, struck over an earlier host coin. The Hebrew legend appears in the field surrounding the central device. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck during the second year of the Bar Kokhba revolt against Rome, this coin was part of a deliberate Jewish overstrike program — Roman provincial silver, primarily tetradrachms and denarii, was commandeered and restruck to assert autonomous Jewish authority during what both sides understood to be an existential conflict. The Hebrew inscription naming "Shimon" refers to Simon bar Kosiba, whom Rabbi Akiva identified with the messianic prophecy of Numbers 24:17, giving rise to the epithet Bar Kokhba, "Son of a Star."
The revolt collapsed in 135 AD after the Roman destruction of Betar. Surviving host-coin flans occasionally show traces of the underlying Roman type bleeding through at the edges.