Bronze Half Ma-ah "Bar- Kochba " Coin In 14Kt Gold Ring

Reverse: Seven-branched palm tree with two branches of dates, Hebrew legend "Shimon" across field. Obverse: vine leaf, Hebrew legend "year 2 of the freedom of Israel" around.

Bar Kokhba coins were issued by Jewish rebels during the second great Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire between 132 and 135 CE. The military revolt was led by Shim'on Ben Cosiba, Better known as Bar Cochba, meaning "son of the star". These coins, also known as revolt coinage, were primarily struck on the reused flans of various silver and bronze Roman Imperial coins of the reigns of Vesasian through Hadrian. Hammering before the striking the Jewish designs obliterated the original types, but often traces of of the undertype remain. This "medium bronze" denomination may well have been overstruck on a Roman dupondius. The coins also bore inscriptions like "To the Freedom of Jerusalem" and the name "Shim'on" (Bar Kokhba's name).

Bar Kokhba Revolt, (132–135ce), was a Jewish rebellion against Roman rule in Judaea. The revolt was preceded by years of clashes between Jews and Romans in the area. Finally, in 132;ce, the misrule of Tinnius Rufus, the Roman governor of Judaea, combined with the emperor Hadrian’s intention to found a Roman colony on the site of Jerusalem and his restrictions on Jewish religious freedom and observances (which included a ban on the practice of male circumcision), roused the last remnants of Palestinian Jewry to revolt. A bitter struggle ensued. Bar Kokhba became the leader of this second Jewish revolt ; although at first successful, his forces proved no match against the methodical and ruthless tactics of the Roman general Julius Severus. With the fall of Jerusalem and then Bethar, the fortress to the southwest of Jerusalem where Bar Kokhba was slain, the rebellion was crushed in 135. According to Christian sources, Jews were thenceforth forbidden to enter Jerusalem. As a direct result of the war, the new province of Syria Palestine was created and Jerusalem was rebuilt as a pagan city under the name Colonia Aelia Capitolina, from which the Jews were excluded.