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 85.7 (O12/R44; this coin); TJC 267; Hendin 1411). Struck on a huge flan. Lustrous and lightly toned. Superb extremely fine.

Purchased privately from H. Kriendler, November 1995; Ex Frank Sternberg (Zurich).

Estimate: $ 4,000