438, Lot: 244. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (19mm, 3.26 g, 12h). Jerusalem mint. Undated issue, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). “Shim’on’” (in Hebrew) irregularly distributed in two lines within wreath / Elongated kithara; “For the Freedom of Jerusalem” (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 130 (O19/R67); Meshorer 272b; Hendin 1424. EF, toned, overstruck on a Bostra mint drachm of Trajan (cf. RPC III 4076).

Ex Edward J. Waddell inventory 42924 (ND).