CNG 99, Lot: 361. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz (18mm, 3.29 g, 7h). Undated issue attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). Grape bunch on vine tendril; “Shim’on’” in Hebrew around / Kithara; “For the Freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew around. Mildenberg 216 (O24/R139); Meshorer 274a; Hendin 1435. Good VF. Overstruck on a Hadrian denarius, with portions of obverse and reverse legends and profile of bust visible.

From the Michael Joffre Collection.