CNG 84, Lot: 726. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.87 g, 12h). Dated year 2 (133/4 CE). “Jerusalem” in Hebrew at sides, façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; Ark of the Covenant within, + above / “year 2 of the freedom of Israel” in Hebrew, bundle of lulav; ethrog to left. Mildenberg 14 (O3/R8); Meshorer 230b; Hendin 688; Bromberg 82 (same dies). VF, darkly toned.

From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection. Ex Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 318; Gen. Moshe Dayan Collection (Sotheby’s, 28 October 1985), lot 347.