CNG 102, Lot: 634. Estimate $4000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.92 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 74 (O11/R57); Meshorer 267; Hendin 1411; Bromberg 428 (same dies); Shoshana I 20347 (same dies); Spaer 194. Good VF, toned, some roughness, traces of undertype.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex New York Sale XXXIV (6 January 2015), lot 222 (hammer $5000).