CNG 106, Lot: 502. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 14.87 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 55 (O13/R41); Meshorer 267; Hendin 1411; Bromberg 104 (same dies); Shoshana I 20334 (same dies); Sofaer 108; Spaer 193–4. VF, toned, double struck.

From the George Bernert Collection.