The fact that the Jews minted their own coins in antiquity is numismatic evidence that is very well documented today. But how long have we known that there was such an ancient Jewish coinage? What did the Jews of the time after the two Jewish wars against Rome (66-70 / 74 AD and 132-135 / 136 AD) know about the destruction of the statehood of the people of Israel and the Jewish coins used by the Romans as revolutionary money that was dangerous to the state were valid? How did these coins survive the long centuries of dispersal of the Jews in all parts of the world? When did Christian scholars in Western Europe notice that Jewish coins once existed? Another: Since when did both Jews and Christians have real Jewish coins in the post-Almudic period? What were the needs and interests behind both the concealment of ancient Jewish coins and their preservation in knowledge? Since when have you found and collected Jewish coins and documented them in numismatic publications so that a Jewish section could develop within the broad field of ancient numismatics? And finally: How were real Jewish coins scientifically evaluated in biblical studies, in philology and in the historical studies of antiquity and especially of ancient Judaism? This is the first time that this dramatic fate of Jewish coinage is shown.