JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.84 g, 12h). Dated year 2 (133/4 CE). Façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; showbread table within, cross above, "Jerusalem" (in Hebrew) around / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, "Y(ear) 2 of the freedom of Israel" (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 14 (O3/R8); Meshorer 230a (same rev. die as illustration); Hendin 6416; Bromberg 82 (same dies); Shoshana I 20260 (same obv. die); Sofaer 31–4; Spaer 190 (same dies). Lightly toned, traces of undertype (uncertain Flavian tetradrachm with two portraits). EF.
From the Dr. Jay M. Galst Collection, purchased from ILM, December 1990.