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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1004097, member: 26302&quot;]Lol, &quot;Petra Drachm&quot;. I love how normal media completely screws up anything numismatic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lets see, Petra was a city in a different civilization, not Jewish, and had nothing to do with coin denominations. They might have meant tetradrachm. 9 of them would not have bought a house, they would have fed a family for a month or so. They are Bar Kochba coins, scarce but not really rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: As far aas I know, all Bar Kochba coins were overstruck on Roman coins since they had no silver supply of their own. There are some really neat overstrikes since the coins weren&#039;t minted terribly well, you can frequently see the undertype. It seems they went out of their way to overstrike older &quot;Judea Capta&quot; coins that the Romans issued to celebrate the capture of Israel in the first Jewish uprising, which would make sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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