Watch List notes:

ANCIENT JEWISH COINS, BAR KOKHBA, Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.36 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 55.18 (O13/R41; this coin); TJC 267; Hendin 1411). The Mildenberg plate coin. Overstruck on a Tetradrachm of Hadrian. Toned. Extremely fine.

ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part I (Superior, 5 December 1991), lot 104.

Estimate: $ 3,500