Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 820. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA. Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. Æ 27mm (6.70 gm). Dated year 2 (133/4 CE). 'Year 2 of the freedom of Israel', grape leaf / 'Shimon', palm tree. Cf. Mildenberg 82 (O7/R-; uncertain reverse die); Hendin 708. VF, green and earthen patina, overstruck on a Gaza coin of Hadrian (Rosenberger 60) dated the year of the beginning of the Bar Kochba revolt. ($150)