A bronze Coin, minted in Jerusalem during the fourth year of the Great Revolt.
In the fourth year of the revolt, the Jewish rebels minted a small amount of silver coins, and three types of Bronze coins of different sizes. While the two bigger coin-types were marked as either half or quarter-Shekkels, the smallest of the three remained unnamed, but it may have been an Eighth of a Shekkel.
Obverse: Chalice surrounded by the Paleo-Hebrew legend “For the redemption of Zion”
Reverse: A bundled lulav (palm branch) between two Etrogim (citrons), surrounded by the Hebrew legend “Year four”
Date: 69/70 CE
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