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LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 01-12-2009, 11:27 PM   #1 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,092 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 Jewish War -Year 2 (67/68 CE) Picked this little Judean-Roman war coin - The Hebrew says, "Freedom of Zion" __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   01-12-2009, 11:28 PM   #2 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,092 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   01-12-2009, 11:29 PM   #3 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,092 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   01-13-2009, 09:49 AM   #4 (permalink) De Orc P & R COMMISSAR     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London. UK Posts: 8,095 My Mood: Lovely coin Ruben Prutah year 3 (I think) Amphora Vine leaf __________________ My Notes 1176 to date 02/06/09 http://www.banknotebank.com/?collection=De-Orc My Coins 2168 to date 02/06/09 http://www.omnicoin.com/?collection=De-Orc   01-13-2009, 01:27 PM   #5 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,092 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 Yeah - I like this one. The leaf is great and the strict is well centered. Ruben __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   01-13-2009, 03:00 PM   #6 (permalink) gadg Junior Member     Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Israel Posts: 6 very nice coin Quote: Originally Posted by De Orc Lovely coin Ruben Prutah year 3 (I think) Amphora Vine leaf Sorry it is year 2 ( 68/67 AC The war of the Jews against the Romans ) __________________ Austrian/Habsburg Coins Collector   01-13-2009, 05:51 PM   #7 (permalink) tcore Coin Collector     Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Midwest Posts: 1,162 That's the biggest thumbnail I've ever seen! Seriously though, nice pick-ups Ruben. __________________ ANA# R-3135486 ---My Gallery---   01-13-2009, 05:58 PM   #8 (permalink) Magman U.S. Money Collector     Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 2,996 My Mood: Quote: Originally Posted by tcore That's the biggest thumbnail I've ever seen! Seriously though, nice pick-ups Ruben. thumbnail of an elephant maybe. but that's a nice coin   01-14-2009, 09:58 AM   #9 (permalink) acanthite Akiba haiozi     Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Western hemisphere Posts: 1,817 My Mood: Nice coin! Lots of detail visible. __________________ 'The vanquished always seek to imitate their conquerors in their dress, insignia, beliefs, and other customs and usages...' - Ibn Khaldun, c. 1380   01-14-2009, 04:01 PM   #10 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,092 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 Quote: Originally Posted by acanthite Nice coin! Lots of detail visible. My thiumb or the coin? Actually this coin's leaf drove us to it. Ruben __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   01-14-2009, 04:41 PM   #11 (permalink) danielf Member     Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: New York Posts: 71 My Mood: Excellent coin! I can clearly read 5 of the 7 letters on the obverse and all of the letters on the reverse. And the reverse is perfectly centered too. Much nicer than mine. By the way, besides the inscription (year 2 or year 3) you can tell the difference because the year 2 coins don't have the lid on the amphora and the year 3 coins do - just in case the inscription is not clear. -Daniel   01-15-2009, 05:53 AM   #12 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,092 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 Quote: Originally Posted by danielf Excellent coin! I can clearly read 5 of the 7 letters on the obverse and all of the letters on the reverse. And the reverse is perfectly centered too. Much nicer than mine. By the way, besides the inscription (year 2 or year 3) you can tell the difference because the year 2 coins don't have the lid on the amphora and the year 3 coins do - just in case the inscription is not clear. -Daniel Thanks for that tip. And the NY Show my elder daughter and I scouted out never ever Jewish Wars coin we could find of this class and we thought this was the best example of the show. Are you familiar with the script? Ruben __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   01-15-2009, 05:56 AM   #13 (permalink) mrbrklyn CEO of Brooklyn     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,092 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 http://www.ancientscripts.com/old_hebrew.html __________________ "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." Coin Talk Museum Exhibits http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins.html   01-15-2009, 10:06 AM   #14 (permalink) danielf Member     Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: New York Posts: 71 My Mood: Ruben, Yes, I am pretty good at this point at reading the paleo-Hebrew. Not as good as I am at reading the modern Hebrew, of course. I wish I was as good at recognizing if the coins are legit or not. When I see the shekels and half shekels from the war, I can recognize the ones that Hendin has in his "Not Kosher" book, but there are lots of fakes that everyone seems to be able to spot so easily and I cannot see what they see for the life of me.   01-15-2009, 10:12 AM   #15 (permalink) De Orc P & R COMMISSAR     Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London. UK Posts: 8,095 My Mood: Thanks for the tip about the lid, I did not know that __________________ My Notes 1176 to date 02/06/09 http://www.banknotebank.com/?collection=De-Orc My Coins 2168 to date 02/06/09 http://www.omnicoin.com/?collection=De-Orc   Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google Would you like to support CoinTalk? Coin Talk Code of Honor 1. Post unto others as you would have them post unto you. 2. Keep it clean, like a 1950s family television show. 3. 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