Pedigreed to 1925

Triton XIX, Lot: 310. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.68 g, 1h). Dated year 2 (133/4 CE). Façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; showbread table within, star above, “Shim‘on” in Hebrew at sides / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, “Y[ear] 2 of the Freedom of Israel” in Hebrew around. Mildenberg 21.1 (O4/R14 – this coin); Meshorer 230a; Hendin 1388; Bromberg 85 (same dies); Shoshana I 20263 (same dies); Sofaer 34 (same dies); Spaer 191. EF, toned, some deposits, minor doubling on reverse.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 751952 (January 2005); Morton & Eden 10 (23 November 2004), lot 646; Allotte de la Fuÿe Collection (Florange & Ciani, 17 February 1925), lot 1105.