Lot 143
Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (13.88 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 86 (O12/R66); TJC 267; Hendin 1411). Rare - only nine specimens cited in Mildenberg. Understriking of a Syrian Tetradrachm of Trajan visible on the reverse. Toned. Nearly extremely fine. Estimate $3,500UP
Ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part. II (10 December 1992), lot 432.
This marvelous sela is overstruck on a provincial tetradrachm of Trajan from Syria or Bostra in Arabia.
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