Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 323. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (3.16 g, 1h). Undated issue (year 3, struck 134/5 CE). “Shim’on” in Hebrew within wreath / “for the freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew, flagon with handle; luvav to right. Mildenberg 121 (O18/R76); Meshorer 283 var. (pellet in center of obv.); AJC II 66; Hendin 726; Bromberg 498 (same dies). Near EF, Overstruck on a Bostra drachm of Trajan (cf. SNG ANS 1155).

Ex Tkalec & Rauch (14 April 1986), lot 174.