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Numismatics66–70 è.c.

Silver half-shekel of the Great Revolt

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חצי שקל כסף ממרד הגדול

Description

During the Great Revolt against Rome (66-70), the rebels struck silver shekels and half-shekels bearing a chalice and pomegranates, with the legends "shekel of Israel" and "Jerusalem the holy" in paleo-Hebrew, a monetary assertion of Jewish sovereignty.

Features

Material
Argent
Provenance
Jérusalem

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