The Medium and Small Bronze Series of Bar Kokhba Reconsidered: More on a Mint at Herodium

Abstract

Herodium was a major administrative center of the Bar Kokhba uprising and as such several of
the insurgents’ issues may have been minted there. This article uses the two main die comparison
studies for the Bar Kokhba medium- and small-size bronze series, namely the groundbreaking
corpus of the Herodium hoard published by Spijkerman (1972) and Mildenberg’s seminal work,
The Coinage of the Bar Kokhba War (1984) to examine the probability that a mint at Herodium
may have produced most of these bronze coins.