Triton XVIII, Lot: 750. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 13.60 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) at sides / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, “For the Freedom of Jerusalem” (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 63 (O14/R48); Meshorer 267; Hendin 1411; Bromberg 109 (same dies); Shoshana II 20340 (same obv. die); Sofaer 107–13; Spaer 193–4. Good VF, toned, traces of undertype, area of minor roughness on reverse.