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<p>[QUOTE="Carl Wilmont, post: 6544810, member: 75496"]<font size="5">Coins from the Bar Kokhba Revolt were re-struck. Excerpt from my CoinTalk article, "The Bar Kokhba Revolt (132-136 AD)":</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"> </font><font size="4">"...the rebels began to produce their own currency by overstriking Roman bronze and silver coins. This repurposing of coinage resulted in the conversions of the <i>tetradrachm </i>to the <i>sela (shekel)</i>; the <i>denarius </i>and provincial <i>drachm </i>to the <i>zuz;</i> and the <i>sestertius</i>, the <i>dupondus, </i>and the <i>as </i>to the <i>prutah</i>. The surfaces of bronze coins were filed down to obliterate previous images before being overstruck, but silver coins were hammered down instead in order to preserve the precious metal content. The latter method was less effective in completely erasing impressions on the host coin, and thus remnants of the undertype can sometimes be detected on Bar Kokhba selas and zuzim."</font></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-bar-kokhba-revolt-132-136-ad.362091/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-bar-kokhba-revolt-132-136-ad.362091/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-bar-kokhba-revolt-132-136-ad.362091/</a></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Here's my example:</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/bar-kokhba-zuz-png.1134674/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Zuz (3.25 g), 132-135 AD. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 AD). 'Simon' (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with leaf and tendril. / 'For the freedom of Jerusalem' (Paleo-Hebrew), upright palm branch. Hendin 1430; Hendin Great Biblical Coins, Fifth Edition, plate 40, (this coin illus.); Mildenberg 150 (O11/R103), 7 cited, this being #5. Portions of the undertype legend visible on obverse from the obverse of a Drachm, probably of Trajan and probably of Caesaria. The letters AYTOK can be discerned, these being part of the title AYTOKRATΩR - autocrat, dictator, tyrant, despot. Ex David Hendin Collection.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Carl Wilmont, post: 6544810, member: 75496"][SIZE=5]Coins from the Bar Kokhba Revolt were re-struck. Excerpt from my CoinTalk article, "The Bar Kokhba Revolt (132-136 AD)": [/SIZE][SIZE=4]"...the rebels began to produce their own currency by overstriking Roman bronze and silver coins. This repurposing of coinage resulted in the conversions of the [I]tetradrachm [/I]to the [I]sela (shekel)[/I]; the [I]denarius [/I]and provincial [I]drachm [/I]to the [I]zuz;[/I] and the [I]sestertius[/I], the [I]dupondus, [/I]and the [I]as [/I]to the [I]prutah[/I]. The surfaces of bronze coins were filed down to obliterate previous images before being overstruck, but silver coins were hammered down instead in order to preserve the precious metal content. The latter method was less effective in completely erasing impressions on the host coin, and thus remnants of the undertype can sometimes be detected on Bar Kokhba selas and zuzim."[/SIZE] [SIZE=5][/SIZE] [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-bar-kokhba-revolt-132-136-ad.362091/[/URL] [SIZE=5] Here's my example:[/SIZE] [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/bar-kokhba-zuz-png.1134674/[/IMG] [I] Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Zuz (3.25 g), 132-135 AD. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 AD). 'Simon' (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with leaf and tendril. / 'For the freedom of Jerusalem' (Paleo-Hebrew), upright palm branch. Hendin 1430; Hendin Great Biblical Coins, Fifth Edition, plate 40, (this coin illus.); Mildenberg 150 (O11/R103), 7 cited, this being #5. Portions of the undertype legend visible on obverse from the obverse of a Drachm, probably of Trajan and probably of Caesaria. The letters AYTOK can be discerned, these being part of the title AYTOKRATΩR - autocrat, dictator, tyrant, despot. Ex David Hendin Collection.[/I][/QUOTE]
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