CNG 109, Lot: 360. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (19mm, 2.80 g, 1h). Jerusalem mint. Undated issue, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). “Shim‘on” (in Hebrew) irregularly distributed in two lines within wreath / Elongated kithara with three strings; “For the freedom of Jerusalem” (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 70 (O14/R42); Meshorer 272c; Hendin 1429. EF, toned, softly struck on obverse. Overstruck on a denarius of Trajan (his portrait is visible on the reverse).