Simon bar Kokhba (military leader and king of Judea, 132-135 CE)

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Simon ben Kosevah, known to posterity as Bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שמעון בן כוסבה; died 135 CE), was a Jewish military leader who led the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE. He reigned as an independent king for three years until the Romans regained Judaea.

Die Studies

Item	Image	Metal	Weight
Judaea (uncertain mint) (Bar Kokhba), medium bronze (palm branch/lyre) (132-133 CE)		Bronze
Judaea (uncertain mint) (Bar Kokhba), large bronze (inscription/amphora) (132-133 CE)		Bronze
Judaea (uncertain mint) (Bar Kokhba), small bronze (vine leaf/palm tree) (132-133 CE)		Bronze
Judaea (uncertain mint) (Bar Kokhba), silver, drachms (legend/jug) (132-135 CE)		Silver	3,457 kg
Judaea (uncertain mint) (Bar Kokhba), silver, tetradrachms (tetrastyle facade/Iulav) (132-135 CE)		Silver	6,899 kg

Overstriking coins

Item	Overstriking coin	Metal	Date	Overstruck type
3119 - Judaea (uncertain mint) (Bar Kokhba) over Ptolemaic type (Zeus/eagle) (Hendin 1993)		Bronze	132 BC JL

Overstruck coins

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Simon bar Kokhba

Type ᵖ	Person
Nomisma ID	simon_bar_kokhba_judaea
Links	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q273117 http://viaf.org/viaf/52482670 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118637789

Literature

• Mildenberg 1984 (6 mentions)
• Hendin 1993 (1 mentions)