Triton XIX, Lot: 311. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 13.50 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 36 (O8’/R26); Meshorer 230a; Hendin 1388; Bromberg 94 (same dies); Shoshana I 20272 (same dies); Sofaer 5; Spaer 191. EF, lightly toned, traces of undertype.

From the David Hendin Collection.