JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. Æ (24mm, 10.38 g, 6h). Dated year 2 (133/4 CE). Palm tree with two bunches of dates; "Shim'on" (in Hebrew) across field / Grape leaf; "Y[ear] 2 of the freedom of Israel" (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 86.1 (O7/R50) = Bromberg 573 (this coin); Meshorer 259a (same rev. die as illustration); Hendin 6436a; Shoshana I 20325 (same rev. die); Sofaer 85 (same rev. die); Spaer 249 (same rev. die). Brown surfaces, minor roughness. VF.
From the Dr. Jay M. Galst Collection. Ex Abraham Bromberg Collection (Part II, Superior, 10 December 1992), lot 573.