Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 315. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, First Jewish War. 66-70 CE. AR Half Shekel (6.82 g, 1h). Dated year 3 (68/9 CE). “Half Shekel” in Hebrew, omer cup with pearled rim; “y(ear) 3” in Hebrew above / “Jerusalem the holy” in Hebrew, sprig of three pomegranates. Meshorer 203; AJC II 19; Hendin 663; Kadman 23; Bromberg 71 (same dies). Good VF, darkly toned.

Ex Gen. Moshe Dayan Collection (Sotheby’s, 28 October 1985), lot 346.