CNG 97, Lot: 376. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela (25mm, 14.66 g, 1h). 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 71 (O15/R53); Meshorer 267; Hendin 1411. Near EF, toned.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.