Watch List notes:

ANCIENT JEWISH COINS, BAR KOKHBA, Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (13.91 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 of four semicircles connected by horizontal lines. Rev. 'For the freedom of Jerusalem' (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 88.4 (O16/R68; this coin); TJC -; Hendin 1414). Very rare type - only seven specimens cited by Mildenberg. Lightly toned. Choice very fine.

Purchased privately from Josef Kaufman at the NYINC, December 1991
ex El Fawar Hoard.
This rare variety of the 'Wavy Line' above the facade of the Jerusalem Temple (M-88) consisting of four semi-cirles connected by a horizontal line is the only die of this variety.

Estimate: $ 6,000