[SunkenCiv]

• Bar-Kochba Treasure Discovered in Judean Hills -- The largest-ever known number of coins from the time of Bar-Kochba, the Jewish leader against Roman invaders, has been discovered in the Judean Hills by cave researchers from Hebrew and Bar-Ilan Universities. [2009]
• Harrari Harps Recreates Biblical Instruments -- The kinor is taken from the Bar Kochba coin, the money used in the time of Shimon Bar Kochba and the Roman occupation. It has the imprint of a little kinor on it. In the Talmud it says there were ten strings. In the psalms, many times it says upon a harp of ten strings I will praise thee Hashem. There's something special about the number ten. [2008]

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I think the reason the coins were left in their buried state has more to do with the fate of the rebellion than the fact that they weren’t of use in the desert. I don’t buy that usefulness explanation at all.

Hard money is always of use at some future time and that’s exactly why it is buried. The owner doesn’t want it on hs person, but expects to use it later when whatever danger prompts him to bury it is over.

It is more likely that the Romans eventually winkled out the rebels hidden in the caves and either sold them into slavery or killed them. Thus no one was left to go back for the buried coins.