JUDAEA. Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz (Denarius) (20mm, 3.41 gm, 7h). Undated (year 3 -134/135 CE). "Shimon," grape bunch / "For the freedom of Jerusalem," lyre with three strings. Mildenberg 213 (O24/R137); Meshorer 274a; Hendin 734. Good VF, nice old collection toning. Overstruck on a denarius of Hadrian: Laureate bust left / Justitia (RSC 884 or 897c). Rare variety of a Hadrian denarius as the undertype.
Ex Allotte de la Fuÿe Collection (Florange & Ciani, 17-21 February 1925), lot 1131 (overlooked in Mildenberg's corpus).
