During the Bar Kokhba Jewish revolt against Roman rule at the 1-2 century AD some coins were issued to commemorate it and the leader of the revolt Shimun Bar Kokhba. One of them was a silver tetradrachm or Shekel coin issued at about the first half of the second century with inscriptions in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet Aramaic language. Hebrew was long gone a spoken language in the Holy Land. The spoken language was Aramaic which the Jews learned and shifted to after their exile to Babylon by the Persian Empire. For more on the exile read When did the Jews shift to Aramaic? First side reads Shimun as in Shimun Bar Kokhba- the head of the revolt. At first I thought that the two symbols on the right denote a date but it turned out that the word Shimun is broken up in two parts far apart from each other. Hence we got the letters Shin, Mim, Vav, Nun ŠMWN Shimun The flip side reads LHRT YRŠLM Leherut Yerushalem Freedom to Jerusalem Le- to,for Herut- Freedom Yerushalem- Jerusalem Lam...