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2.9.15
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LOTTO 173:

A silver denarius (‘Zuz’), Bar Kokhba Revolt


Prezzo iniziale:
$ 1 050
Prezzo stimato :
$1 400 - $1 100
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A silver denarius (‘Zuz’), Bar Kokhba Revolt
Obv.: A bunch of grapes surrounded by paleo-Hebrew inscription  173 (Shimon). In the margins, vestiges of Latin inscription. Rev: Two trumpets surrounded by inscription 173 (2) (for the freedom of Jerusalem). To the right of the trumpets is the complete profile of the portrait of the Roman Emperor who appeared on the original. 132/5 C.E. 2.88 grams, 18 mm, axis 1. Cf. Ya’akov Meshorer, A Treasury of Jewish Coins (New York 2001), pl. 70, no. 277. The Bar Kokhba Revolt (132-135 CE) used similar symbols and inscriptions to the First Revolt. It broke out some seventy years after the destruction of the Second Temple and fifteen years after a Jewish revolt in the diaspora. The tragic consequences of the Revolt led to a pun on the name Bar Kokhba, Bar Cosiba, “son of the lie”. Bar-Kokhba coins were struck on Roman coins.