CNG 102, Lot: 633. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.71 g, 1h). Undated, but attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). Façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; showbread table within, star above, “Shim‘on” (in Hebrew) at sides / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, “For the Freedom of Jerusalem” (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 72 (O15/R56); Meshorer 267; Hendin 1411; Bromberg 427 (same obv. die); Shoshana I 20345 (same obv. die); Spaer 194. EF, toned, a couple edge splits, obverse slightly off center.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio (9 January 2015), lot 160.