Triton XVII, Lot: 394. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (19mm, 3.31 g, 12h). Undated issue (year 3, struck 134/5 CE). “Shim’on’” in Hebrew within wreath / Flagon with handle; palm frond to right; “For the Freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew around. Mildenberg 79 (O14/R51); Meshorer 283b (same dies as illustration [erroneously printed in retrograde]); Hendin 1427; Bromberg 475 (same dies); Shoshana I 20385 (same obv. die); Sofaer 115. EF, overstruck on a denarius of Vespasian (...ES VESP AVG... visible on reverse).