Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 562. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA. Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela ­ Tetradrachm (14.01 gm, 12h). Dated year 2 (133/4 CE). "Shimon," temple facade, the Ark of the Covenant within; star above / "Year 2 of the freedom of Israel," lulav with etrog. Mildenberg 40 (O10/R28); Meshorer 233; AJC II pg. 267, 16a; Hendin 689. Good VF, reverse slightly double struck. Overstruck on a tetradrachm of Trajan, with outlines of his portrait and some of the legend visible under the temple. ($1500)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection. Ex Goldberg (31 May 1999), lot 1057.