“Revolt” Coins Minted on Temple Mount

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The Royal Stoa at the southern end of Herod’s Temple Mount was “a structure more noteworthy than any under the sun,” according to Josephus. And when the First Jewish Revolt broke out in 66 C.E., this magnificent building became a hub for rebel coin minting

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Footnotes

See Aryeh Shimron and Orit Peleg-Birkat, “New Evidence of the Royal Stoa and Roman Flames,” BAR 36:02.

Endnotes

Antiquities 15.411.

Donald T. Ariel, “Identifying the Mints, Minters and Meanings of the First Jewish Revolt Coins,” lecture given at the Groningen conference on First Revolt coins, October 21–22, 2010.