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JUDAEA. Bar Kokhba Revolt (AD 132-135). AR zuz (19mm, 3.11 gm, 7h). NGC Choice AU★ 5/5 - 5/5. Dated Year 2 (AD 133/4). Simon (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes in three lobes hanging from branch, tendril to right, leaf to left / Year two of the Freedom of Israel (Paleo-Hebrew), fluted oenochoe, handle on left, willow branch on right. GBC 6, 6424. GBC 5, 1395. Boldly struck with the designs shadowed by warm, amber toning contrasting the rest of the icy fields.
Overstruck on a Vespasian denarius, with part of the legend visible on the obverse.
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