Lot 62
Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Æ Small Bronze (5.63 g), 132-135 CE. Year 1 (132/3 CE). 'Eleazar the priest' (Paleo-Hebrew), seven-branched palm tree with two bunches of dates. Rev. 'Year one of the redemption of Israel' (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with branch and small leaf. (Mildenberg 147 (O1/R1); TJC 224; Hendin 1380a). Attractive desert brown and green patina. Superb extremely fine. Estimate $750UP
Purchased privately from Superior at the NYINC, December 1988.
This example of the year 1 small bronze denomination exhibits the irregularity of a retrograde paleo-Hebrew inscription. Evidently the engraver did not understand that he needed to cut the letters backwards into the die in order for them to appear properly on the finished coin. Also interesting is that it shares its reverse die with the silver zuzim of year 1, cf. (Mildenberg series II, 1, die O1.
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