CNG 97, Lot: 364. Estimate $400. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz (20mm, 3.45 g, 6h). Dated year 2 (133/4 CE). Grape bunch on vine; “Shim‘on” in Hebrew around / Fluted jug and branch; “year two of the freedom of Isarel (sic!)” in Hebrew around. Mildenberg 45 (O8/R22’); Meshorer 253a; Hendin 1395. Good VF, toned, flaw on jug, minor reverse die crack. Overstruck on a Trajan denarius.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.