Published by Mildenberg
Pedgreed to 1923

Triton XIX, Lot: 315. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (18.5mm, 3.24 g, 1h). Undated, but attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). Grape bunch on vine; “Shim‘on” in Hebrew around / Palm frond; “for the freedom of Jeru[salem]” in Hebrew around. Mildenberg 261.1 (O53/R176 – this coin); cf. Meshorer 281; cf. Hendin 1430; Bromberg 225 (same dies); Shoshana I 20442 (this coin); Sofaer –; Spaer –. VF, deeply toned, traces of undertype. Rare.

From the David Hendin Collection. Ex Shoshana Collection (Part I, Heritage, 8 March 2012), lot 20442; Vinchon (30 June 1978), lot 102; Numismatic Fine Arts [Gans] (19 April 1960), lot 444; Naville V (18 June 1923), lot 2863.