Triton XVII, Lot: 393. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm ( 26mm, 15.03 g, 1h). Undated issue (year 3, struck 134/5 CE). Façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; showbread table within, star above, “[Shi]m‘on” in Hebrew at sides / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, “For the Freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew around. Mildenberg 78 (O12/R61); Meshorer 267; Hendin 1411; Bromberg 114 (same dies); Shoshana II 20210 (same dies); Sofaer 108 (same obv. die). VF, toned, minor area of flat strike, traces of uncertain undertype visible on reverse.

From the RAJ Collection, purchased in 1994 from F. Shore.