CE is a secularized version of AD ... and this system of referring to years as AD / BC did not come until after AD 132...right? So is the author converting the year actually shown on the coin to what that same year is considered in current times...or is this coin a fake?
It’s obviously a conversion from the Jewish date or less possibly the Roman date. CE is used by non-Christian nations and other groups as a reasonable accommodation.
I'm guessing the former. I think the archeologists would have easily spotted a fake of that magnitude. The writer of this article is just being lazy. She should have said something like, "The coin bears a Jewish date that in modern reckoning is the equivalent of AD 132."
CE is an anti-Christian substitution for AD. They do it on purpose.
Beat me to it as I noticed the same thing.
The inscription on similar coins is ‘Year one of the revolt’. Earliest of the coins reference Eleazer. There are apparently quite a few examples.