May 22, 2012, Tuesday, 142

Coins from Masada, 67-68 CE

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A shekel and half-shekel after cleaning


Top: two faces of a shekel of year 2 with the inscriptions “Jerusalem the Holy” (above) and “Shekel of Israel (below).

Bottom: two faces of a half-shekel of year 3 with the inscription “Jerusalem the Holy” (above) and “Half a shekel” (below).


Yadin, Yigael, Masada, 1968.