JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (20mm, 3.29 g, 6h). Dated year 2 (133/4 CE). Grape bunch on vine tendril; "Shim'on'" (in Hebrew) around / Flagon with handle; palm frond to right, "Y(ear) 2 of the freedom of Israel" (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 45 (O8/R22'); Meshorer 253 (same obv. die as illustration); Hendin 6424; Bromberg 145 (same dies); Shoshana I 20310 (same dies); Sofaer 58; Spaer 208. Lightly toned, overstruck on a denarius of Titus (as augustus, with COS VII P P on reverse). EF.
From the Dr. Jay M. Galst Collection. Ex Sternberg XXVI (16 November 1992), lot 153.