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CNG 84, Lot: 730. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.03 g, 12h). Undated issue (year 3, struck 134/5 CE). “Shim’on” in Hebrew at sides, façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; Ark of the Covenant within, wavy line above / “for the freedom of Jerusalem” in Hebrew, Bundle of lulav; ethrog to left. Mildenberg 91 (O17/R70); Meshorer 269a; AJC II 53; Bromberg 121 (same dies). EF, lightly toned, slight double strike. Overstruck on an uncertain Roman tetradrachm. Rare issue with wavy line on obverse.


From the Patrick H.C. Tan Collection.