Triton XX, Lot: 368. Estimate $4000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (26mm, 13.66 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 34 (O8/R24); Meshorer 230a; Hendin 1388; Bromberg 93 (same dies); Shoshana I 20273 (same dies); Sofaer 35 (same obv. die); Spaer 192. Good VF, small area of flat strike on obverse, overstruck, minor double strike on reverse. Partial undertype (top of laureate head) visible on reverse.

From the Dr. Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.