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CNG 97, Lot: 384. Estimate $500.
Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz (20mm, 3.24 g, 6h). Undated, but attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). Grape bunch on vine; “Shim‘on” in Hebrew around / Lyre; “for the freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew around. Mildenberg 213 (O24/R136); Meshorer 274a; Hendin 1435. Good VF. Overstruck on a denarius of Trajan, whose profile is visible under the lyre.


From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.