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Bronze Coin Necklace Of Shimon Bar Kokhba, 67 CE - 135 CE

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Bronze coin of Shimon Bar Kokhba and 18 bronze coins of King John Hyrcanus. These ancient coins are set in a splendid necklace of 18k gold. Sixty-two years after the...
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Bronze coin of Shimon Bar Kokhba and 18 bronze coins of King John Hyrcanus.

These ancient coins are set in a splendid necklace of 18k gold.

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 instill Greco-Roman culture with still greater force, by prohibiting circumcision and erecting a temple to Jupiter Capitolinus on the Temple Mount. 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 more fierce than the first Jewish revolt, and the Romans were initially bard 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, omitted the customary mention of his own health and 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 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.
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