A silver shekel, the second year of the Jewish War against Rome. Obv.: A cup surrounded by a paleo-Hebrew inscription שקל ישראל (shekel of Israel). Above the cup, the letters שב ,abbreviation of שנה ב (year two). Rev.: A stem with three pomegranates surrounded by insc. ירושלים הקדושה (Jerusalem tehe holy). The coin was in a serious fire. Recently coins have been sold in the market purporting to have been burnt in the conflagration that destroyed the Second Temple. We make no such claims. 67/8 C.E. 12.7 grams, 22 mm, axis 12. TJC 193