JUDAEA - Jerusalem The Jewish War (JUN2514)

Judaea, The Jewish War. Æ Prutah (2,45 g, 16.5 mm), 66-70 CE. Jerusalem, year 2 (67/8 CE). ‘Year two’ (Paleo-Hebrew), amphora with broad rim and two handles. Rev. ‘The freedom of Zion’ (Paleo-Hebrew), vine leaf on small branch with tendril. (TJC 196; Hendin 1360). Very fine

Although struck by the Jewish rebels against Rome, the the prutot of the Jewish War take much of their typological inspiration from the earlier coinages struck for Judaea by the Roman praetorial government.