CNG 105, Lot: 431. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (18.5mm, 3.27 g, 7h). Undated issue, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). Grape bunch on vine tendril; “Shim’on’” (in Hebrew) around / Elongated kithara; “For the Freedom of Jerusalem” (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 203 (O24/R131); Hendin 1435. Good VF, toned.

Ex G. Hirsch 280 (8 February 2012), lot 4345; Lanz 30 (26 November 1984), lot 370.