Lot 72
Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.02 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). 'Jerusalem' (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. Rev. 'Year two of the freedom of Israel' (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 9.8 (O1/R8; this coin); TJC 229; Hendin 1385). Rare - only ten specimens cited by Mildenberg. The cover coin from Bromberg II, and overstruck on a tetradrachm of Nero from Antioch. Toned. Superb extremely fine. Estimate $10,000UP
Ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part. II (Superior, 10 December 1992), lot 394 (cover coin).
Ex Beit Mirsim Hoard.
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