Lot 135
Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.70 g), 132-135 CE. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). 'Simon' (Paleo-Hebrew), tetrastyle façade of the Temple of Jerusalem; show bread table or Ark of the Covenant in chest form with semicircular lid and short legs, seen from a narrow side; above façade, star. Rev. 'For the freedom of Jerusalem' (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 63.16 (O14/R48; this coin); TJC 267; Hendin 1411). Mildenberg cites 25 specimens, this being the one chosen to illustrate the dies. Boldly struck and nicely toned. Extremely fine. Estimate $4,000UP
Ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part I (Superior, 5 December 1991), lot 109.
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