Silver tetradrachm of Simon Bar Kokhba’s Judaen rebel state ca. 133-135 AD (overstruck Roman coin), with facade of Second Temple (destroyed 70 AD) and name “Shimon” in Paleo Hebrew. Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the American Numismatic Society [2394×2394] [OC]

[display description, Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://i.ibb.co/64MDsXK/20240924-150906.jpg)

[Silver Tetradrachm of Bar Kokhba

Ancient Israel

Minted 133 in Roman Palestine (modern Israel)

Lent by The American Numismatic Society, New York (L.2000.65.2)

Minted for the Second Jewish War against Rome, this coin depicts the facade of the Temple in Jerusalem. All of the Bar Kokhba coins were overstruck Roman coins.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt_coinage [see similar coin at top right: *Bar Kokhba silver Shekel/tetradrachm. Obverse: the Jewish Temple facade with the rising star, surrounded by “Shimon”. Reverse: A lulav, the text reads: “to the freedom of Jerusalem”*]

[similar coin on American Numismatic Society website](https://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.63047?lang=fr)