Triton XXII, Lot: 384. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.14 g, 1h). Dated year 2 (133/4 CE). Façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; showbread table within, cross above, “Jerusalem” (in Hebrew) at sides / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, “Y[ear] 2 of the Freedom of Israel” (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 17 (O4/R11); Meshorer 229; Hendin 1387; Bromberg 84 (same dies); Shoshana I 20262 (same dies); Sofaer 31 (same obv. die); Spaer 190. EF, lightly toned, lustrous, a couple minor edge splits. Overstruck on an uncertain issue.
Ex Antiqua XVII (ND), no. 54.