- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2008.2.118
- People
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Bar Kochba
- Title
- Coin of Bar Kokhba, Year 2
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 133-134
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Judaea (Palestine)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period
- Culture
- Jewish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/323216
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Bronze
- Metal
- AE
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 10.02g
- Die Axis
- 6
- Date on Object
- Year 2
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: Year 2 of the Freedom of Israel
- Reverse Inscription: Shimon
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- AJC II, p. 270, 42b
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund and purchase through the generosity of the Estate of Leo Mildenberg
- Accession Year
- 2008
- Object Number
- 2008.2.118
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Small five-lobed vine leaf hanging on cut branch, around Hebrew inscription
Rev.: Palm tree with seven branches, r. and l. cluster with three fruits each, around border of dots, underneath Hebrew inscription
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