Watch List notes:

ANCIENT JEWISH COINS, BAR KOKHBA, 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.

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.

Estimate: $ 500