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Very Rare H-1409 Bar Kokhba Year Two Small Bronze
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Æ Small Bronze (4.42 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). ‘Eleazar the priest’
(Paleo-Hebrew), seven-branched palm tree with two bunches of dates. Rev. ‘Year two of the redemption of
Israel’ (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with branch and small leaf. (Mildenberg 152 (O2/R4); TJC 265;
Hendin 1409).
Very rare - only four specimens cited by Mildenberg.
Earthen-black patina.
Choice very fine.
$ 4,000
Purchased privately from D. Hendin, October 1989.
Ex Maltiel-Gerstenfeld Collection, lot 308.
This small bronze of the second year (133/4 CE) of the Bar Kokhba War features the palm tree and grape bunch types familiar from
the first year (132/3 CE). The name
Eleazar
was most commonly used during the first year on both silver zuzim and small bronze
coins, but was also used much less frequently on small bronzes dated to the second and third years.
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Æ Small Bronze (6.84 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). ‘Jerusalem’
(Paleo-Hebrew), seven-branched palm tree with two bunches of dates. Rev. ‘Year two of the redemption of
Israel’ (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with branch and small leaf. (Mildenberg 154 (O3/R5); TJC 266;
Hendin 1410). Earthen highlights over brown-green patina. Extremely fine.
$ 500
Purchased privately, May 1991.
Eleazar is not named on this and the following small denomination bronze, his name replaced with that of Jerusalem, the city that
served as the root cause of Simon bar Kochba’s Jewish uprising.