Watch List notes:

ANCIENT JEWISH COINS, BAR KOKHBA, Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.10 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, wavy line. Rev. 'For the freedom of Jerusalem' (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 94 (O17/R44); TJC 269; Hendin 1413). Rare - only seven specimens cited by Mildenberg. Very well struck and nicely toned. Extremely fine.

ex New York Sale XX (7-8 January 2009), lot 296.

Estimate: $ 4,000