Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 324. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (2.82 g, 1h). Undated issue (year 3, struck 134/5 CE). “Shim’on” in Hebrew, grape bunch / “for the freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew, lyre. Mildenberg 143 (O11/R99); Meshorer 274; AJC II 57; Hendin 734; Bromberg 506 (same dies). Good VF, toned, usual small areas of weak strike.

Ex Gen. Moshe Dayan Collection (Sotheby’s, 28 October 1985), lot 372.