188, Lot: 90. Estimate $150. Sold for $205. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. Æ 26mm (9.76 g). Dated year 2 (133/4 CE). “Year 2 for the Freedom of Israel,” grape leaf on vine / “Shim’on,” palm tree with two bunches of dates. Mildenberg 80 (O6/R44); Meshorer 259b; Hendin 708. Good VF, dark green patina, traces of an undertype.
From the Macleay Collection. Ex Harry Abramowitz Collection (Superior Galleries, 8 December 1993), lot 458 (part of).