Judaea, The Bar Kokhba War. Sela, Judah 133-134 (year 2), AR 35 mm, 13.59 g. Shimon in Paleo-Hebrew characters Façade of the Temple in Jerusalem, above, star. Rev. Year two of the freedom of Israel in Paleo- Hebrew characters Lulav with etrog on l. Meshorer, Jewish Coins, 233. Mildenberg, 42. Hendin 6417. Struck on exceptionally fresh metal and with a lovely light iridescent tone, an almost invisible trace of overstriking, otherwise good extremely fineGraded Ch AU, Strike: 4/4, Surface: 5/5 - overstruck, NGC photo certificate number 8213374-002 Ex NFA XXVI, 1991, 161; New York XXXIX, 2017, 90 and Heritage 31119, 2024, 30025 sales. From the Miller collection. Unlike most coinages of the ancient world, those produced by Jewish rebels during the Bar Kochba War were overstruck on Roman coins. The surfaces of the host coins were hammered or filed down in an effort to obliterate most of their design and, thus, to make them more suitable planchets. But in many cases the hammering and or filing – and even the subsequent mining process – did not eliminate all traces of the undertype. The hosts coins generally used for the sela were provincial tetradrachms of Antioch, whereas imperial denarii or a provincial drachms were used as planchets for the smaller silver coin, the zuz. Please find here the video of the coin