Watch List notes:

ANCIENT JEWISH COINS, BAR KOKHBA, Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.20 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 54.1 (O13/R40; this coin); TJC 267; Hendin 1411). Very rare - only five specimens cited by Mildenberg, this being the plate coin. Toned. Extremely fine.

ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part II (Superior, 10 December 1992), lot 418.

Estimate: $ 4,000