CNG 97, Lot: 380. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz (19mm, 3.17 g, 1h). Undated, but attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). “Shim‘on” in Hebrew irregularly distributed in two lines within wreath of thin branches wrapped around eight almonds / Fluted jug; “for the freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew around. Mildenberg 128.16 (O19/R89 – this coin); Meshorer 284 (same dies as illustration); Hendin 1423. Good VF, lightly toned. Overstruck on a denarius of Vespasian (identified by Mildenberg as a Pax type of 75 CE [see RIC II 772; RSC 366]).

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex Münzen & Medaillen AG FPL 284 (January 1968), no. 26.