Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1346. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (13.55 g, 12h). Dated year 2 (133/4 CE). “Shim’on” in Hebrew at sides, façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; Ark of the Covenant within, star above / “Year 2 of the freedom of Israel” in Hebrew, Bundle of lulav; ethrog to left. Mildenberg 36 (O8’/R26); Meshorer 233; AJC II 16a; Hendin 689; Bromberg 94 (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, light encrustation on obverse, overstruck on uncertain type.