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Message:: [QUOTE="Jay GT4, post: 7739109, member: 88526"]I'm by no means an expert on these but I have been looking for one for a long time. Although the pictures are large the resolution isn't so good.  For me, it's not so much the number of almonds in the wreath (although Hendin says 8) but rather the style.  Perhaps it's from the "irregular" mint. Why not send Hendin a picture?  He's already finished his 6th edition but if it is legit, you may have a new variant. Here's what he says about the "irregular" mint:"From the Roman point of view, both were irregular rebel mints. For the Bar Kokhba administration the "irregular" mint was a second, subsidiary, mint operating not at the central mint but at a different location, and there is no reason to assume that it was considered to be irregular. The occasional reference to these coins as "irregular" does not carry much weight. In the eyes of the Greeks and Romans all Jewish coinage was no doubt considered "irregular coinage" Here's one of my bronzes: [ATTACH=full]1325215[/ATTACH] ShM`WNSimon in Paleo-Hebrew, seven-branched palm tree with two bunches of dates. L-HRWT YRWShLMFor the freedom of Jerusalem (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with branch and small leaf. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). 19mm; 4.46gHendin 1440[/QUOTE]