Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 322. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (2.76 g, 1h). Undated issue (year 3, struck 134/5 CE). “Shim’on” in Hebrew within wreath / “for the freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew, lyre. Mildenberg 70 (O14/R42); Meshorer 272; AJC II 55; Hendin 718; Bromberg 158 (same dies). Near EF, toned.

Ex Gen. Moshe Dayan Collection (Sotheby’s, 28 October 1985), lot 368.