JUDAEA. First Jewish War, A.D. 66-70. AE Quarter Shekel (10.14 gms), Year 4 (A.D. 69-70). NGC EF, Strike: 4/5 Surface: 2/5.，Hendin-669. To the Redemption of Zion (in Hebrew), Etrog (citron); Reverse: Year Four - Quarter (in Hebrew) Two lulavs. Well struck, pleasing desert green patina with reddish splashes, especially on the reverse. The fourth year of the First Jewish War brought an increasingly difficult situation to the embattled Jews, as a civil war broke out between different Jewish factions. This compounded the desperation they had with fighting the Romans. From this dire time came the worlds first siege money, a fiduciary fractional of the shekel.，NGC EF, Strike: 4/5 Surface: 2/5.
