CNG 97, Lot: 374. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela (25mm, 14.58 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 62.5 (O14/R62 – this coin); Meshorer 267; Hendin 1411. Good VF, toned.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts FPL 6 (April 1978), no. 44; Numismatic Fine Arts FPL 3 (December 1977), no. 65; 1976 Dahariyeh Hoard (Mildenberg no. 22).