Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 320. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (14.17 g, 1h). Undated issue (year 3, struck 134/5 CE). “Shim’on” in Hebrew at sides, façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; Ark of the Covenant within, star above / “for the freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew, Bundle of lulav; ethrog to left. Mildenberg 79 (O12/R62); Meshorer 267; AJC II 51; Hendin 711; Bromberg 115 (same dies). Good VF, toned, usual small areas of flat strike.

Ex Gen. Moshe Dayan Collection (Sotheby’s, 28 October 1985), lot 351.