CNG 91, Lot: 385. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.75 g, 1h). Undated issue (year 3, struck 134/5 CE). Façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; showbread table within, star above, “Shim‘on” in Hebrew at sides / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, “For the Freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew around. Mildenberg 79 (O12/R62); Meshorer 267; Bromberg 115 (same dies); Hendin 1411. Good VF, toned, areas of flat strike.

From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.