Triton XVIII, Lot: 751. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 14.18 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) at sides / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, “For the Freedom of Jerusalem” (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 79.24 (O12/R62 – this coin); Meshorer 267; Hendin 1411; Bromberg 115 (same dies); Shoshana II 20211–2 (same dies); Sofaer 108 (same rev. die); Spaer 194 (same dies). VF, toned, overstruck on a tetradrachm of Roman Syria, with much of the eagle visible on the reverse.

Ex Superior (24 September 1970), lot 136.