Mildenberg Plate Coin
Ex Bromberg Collection

CNG 109, Lot: 363. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (19mm, 3.47 g, 7h). Jerusalem mint. 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 203.20 (O24/R131 – this coin, illustrated); Meshorer 272b; Hendin 1424. In NGC encapsulation, 2401360-004, graded AU, Strike: 4/5, Surface 5/5. Struck on a broad flan.

Ex Abraham Bromberg Collection (Part II, Superior, 10 December 1992), lot 535; El Fawar 1978 Hoard (Mildenberg no. 26).