Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 326. 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 (3.29 g, 1h). Undated issue (year 3, struck 134/5 CE). “Shim’on” in Hebrew, grape bunch / “for the freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew, lyre. Mildenberg 172 (O22/R97); Meshorer 274a; AJC II 57; Hendin 734; Bromberg 519 (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, usual flat spots.

Ex Gen. Moshe Dayan Collection (Sotheby’s, 28 October 1985), lot 379.