Watch List notes:

ANCIENT JEWISH COINS, BAR KOKHBA, Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.17 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 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. 'Year two of the freedom of Israel' (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 41 (O11/R30); TJC 233; Hendin 1388). Rare - only seven specimens cited by Mildenberg. The die-break at corner of Ark more pronounced than on Mildenberg 40. Lustrous and delicately toned. Nearly mint state.

Purchased privately from D. Hendin, February 1996.

Estimate: $ 6,000