CNG 97, Lot: 373. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela (25mm, 13.37 g, 12h). Undated, but attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). Façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; showbread table within, star above, “Shim‘on” in Hebrew around / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, “for the freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew around. Mildenberg 57 (O13/R43); Meshorer 267a-b var. (undertypes of Trajan and Vespasian, respectively); Hendin 1411. VF, toned, a few minor flaws. Overstruck on an Antiochene tetradrachm of Nero dated RY 10 and year 112 of the Caesarean era (63/4 CE [cf. McAlee 264-5]).

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.