Watch List notes:

ANCIENT JEWISH COINS, BAR KOKHBA, Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.10 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). 'Jerusalem' (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, +. Rev. 'Year two of the freedom of Israel' (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 18 (O4/R12); TJC 230a; Hendin 1387). Extremely Rare - only one specimen cited by Mildenberg. Virtually as struck. Lustrous. Nearly mint state.

Purchased privately from Antiqua at the NYINC, January 2007.

Estimate: $ 7,000