CNG 106, Lot: 503. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.43 g, 1h). Undated, but attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). Façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; showbread table within, star above, 3∑o2C (“Shim‘on” in Hebrew) at sides / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, 2LC∑R¥ ¡∑RHL (“For the Freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 85 (O12/R44); Meshorer 267; Hendin 1411; Bromberg 118 (same dies); Shoshana II 20214 (same dies); Sofaer 108; Spaer 194 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, indications of undertype.

From the George Bernert Collection. Ex Sternberg 33 (18 September 1997), lot 218.