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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Zuz (3.14 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). ‘Sma’ (Paleo-Hebrew)
within wreath of thin branches wrapped around eight almonds, with a medallion at top and tendrils at
bottom. Rev. ‘Year two of the freedom of Israel’ (Paleo-Hebrew), two trumpets upright. (Mildenberg 23
(O5/R14); TJC 243; Hendin 1392). Delicately toned. Extremely fine.
$ 1,000
Purchased privately from Superior, March 1985.
The musical element of religious service in the Jerusalem Temple, which emerged with the nevel middle bronze type of the first year
(132/3 CE) of the Bar Kochba War and continued on zuzim of the second year (133/4 CE) receives a new type on this and the
following two zuzim of the second year.
Superb Quality H-1393 Wide Lyre Year Two Zuz
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Zuz (3.10 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). ‘Simon’, bunch of grapes
with leaf and tendril. Rev. ‘Year two of the freedom of Israel’ (Paleo-Hebrew), wide lyre with three strings
and four dots on sound box. (Mildenberg 43 (O8/R25); TJC 240; Hendin 1393). Toned.
Superb extremely fine.
$ 4,000
ex NFA XXV (29 November 1990), lot 270.
This zuz of the second year (133/4 CE) of the Bar Kochba War, the coin (Mildenberg selected to illustrate his dies, features a grape
bunch obverse type derived from the similar reverse type used already for zuzim in the first year (132/3 CE). The palm branch re-
verse, however, is an innovation for silver coins in the second year of the war. In the first year this type only appeared on the obverse
of the middle bronze denomination.