Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 312. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, First Jewish War. 66-70 CE. AR Half Shekel (6.77 g, 12h). Dated year 2 (67/8 CE). “Half Shekel” in Hebrew, omer cup with pearled rim; “y(ear) 2” in Hebrew above / “Jerusalem the holy” in Hebrew, sprig of three pomegranates. Meshorer 195; AJC II 10; Hendin 660; Kadman 9; Bromberg 65 (same rev. die). Good VF, darkly toned.

Ex Gen. Moshe Dayan Collection (Sotheby’s, 28 October 1985), lot 339.