A Pendant of Bar Kochba Palm Tree coins, with a Diamond placed on the top, 14k. SILVER & ENAMEL MOUNTED WOOD CROSS 1456 of the important news

1456 of the important news of the breaking of the Ottoman Siege of Belgrade

But the principal event of the Feast of Lights – Christ’s Baptism – continued to be commemorated on the 6th of January

The Annunciation

and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him

while he was attending the Council of Chalcedon (451)

A Pendant of Bar Kochba Palm Tree coins, with a Diamond placed on the top, 14k. SILVER & ENAMEL MOUNTED WOOD CROSS 1456 of the important newsSize: Diameter= 2 cm. Diameter= 0. 7 inch. Unlike the situation at the start of the First Revolt, in Bar Kochbas time, there was no Temple and no Temple Treasury. So, in order to mint their own coins as a sign of sovereignty, they gathered all of the bronze and silver foreign (Rome, Syria, Phoenicia, etc.) coins circulating in Judaea. Then they filed off the original designs and restamped them with Jewish symbols and Hebrew inscriptions relating to