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Auction 39  10 January 2017
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Lot 138

Estimate: 4000 USD
Price realized: 5500 USD
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ANCIENT JEWISH COINS, BAR KOKHBA, Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.39 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 84.4 (O12/R65; this coin); TJC 267; Hendin 1411). The Mildenberg plate coin. Attractively toned. A magnificent example! Superb extremely fine.

ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part I (5 December 1991), lot 117
ex El Fawar Hoard.

Estimate: $ 4,000
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