Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 310. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, First Jewish War. 66-70 CE. AR Half Shekel (6.39 g, 11h). Dated year 1 (66/7 CE). “Half Shekel” in Hebrew, omer cup; “1” (date) in Hebrew above / “Jerusalem the holy” in Hebrew, sprig of three pomegranates. Meshorer 188; AJC II 6; Hendin 656; Kadman 3; Bromberg 60-1. Good VF, toned.

Ex Gen. Moshe Dayan Collection (Sotheby’s, 28 October 1985), lot 318.