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Gold Ring Featuring a Jewish Bronze Coin Minted During the Bar Kokhba Revolt - FJ.5159
Origin: Jerusalem, Israel
Circa: 132
AD
to 133
AD
Collection: Jewelry
Medium: Bronze-Gold
$4,600.00
Location: United States
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This genuine Ancient Jewish coin has been
mounted in a modern 18 karat gold ring.
Sixty-two years after the destruction of the
second temple, the second major war against the
Romans broke out--the bar Kokhba revolt.
Carefully and secretly prepared, this war was
prompted by Hadrian’s wish to install Greco-
Roman culture with even greater force. The
spiritual leader of the revolt was Rabbi Akiva,
while the military and civil leader was Simeon bar
Koseva (Shimon bar Kokhba). This war was much
fiercer than the first Jewish revolt, and the
Romans were initially hard pressed. The twenty -
second legion was defeated and completely
wiped out and Hadrian, in his report to the
senate at the end of the war, even omitted the
customary mention of the army's well being. The
exact extent of the territory controlled by bar
Kokhba is not quite clear, but he certainly held
the Hebron district, part of Idumea and the Dead
Sea region (where the last of his fighters took
shelter in desert caves). It is still not known for
certain if he indeed took Jerusalem, if only for a
short time. The last major stand was at Bethar,
and the war came to an end following bar
Kokhba's death there. From his coins, and from
the documents found in the Judean desert, it is
known that bar Kokhba styled himself nasi
(prince) of Israel. The coins of this revolt
constitute the last ancient Jewish coinage and it
is quite remarkable that in that hour of bitter
struggle and dire peril, the Jews took pains to
mint the most pleasing series of coins ever
issued in that country. Bar Kokhba had learned
from the Romans how to utilize coinage as a
means of mass propaganda; hence the
nationalistic motifs and slogans that appear on
the coins. On one side of this distinctive coin
appears a palm tree, symbolic of fruitful
abundance, with an inscription that reads,
"Jerusalem." the reverse side of the coin depicts
an abstract image of a grape cluster, with an
inscription reading "for the redemption of Israel."
to wear this extraordinary coin, set in a radiant
gold ring, is to share a powerful emotion with
the people who first used the coin so many
centuries ago.
- (FJ.5159)
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