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Auction 39  10 January 2017
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Lot 83

Estimate: 5000 USD
Price realized: 7000 USD
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ANCIENT JEWISH COINS, BAR KOKHBA, Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.68 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 21.5 (O4/R14; this coin); TJC 230a; Hendin 1387). Well struck and well centered on a nice broad flan. Lightly toned. Extremely fine.

ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part I (Superior, 5 December 1991), lot 85.
The reverse die used to strike this coin is missing the first resh in the legend, but the letter was later added to the die (see Mildenberg 24).

Estimate: $ 5,000
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