JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (19mm, 3.42 g, 6h). Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). Grape bunch on vine tendril; "Shim'on'" (in Hebrew) around / Elongated kithara; "For the freedom of Jerusalem" (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 216.7 (O24/R139) = Bromberg 540 (this coin); Meshorer 275 (same obv. die as illustration); Hendin 6462; Shoshana I 20497 (same dies); Sofaer 129 (same obv. die); Spaer 223–4. Lightly toned, overstruck on an uncertain denarius of Trajan. Good VF.
From the Dr. Jay M. Galst Collection. Ex Abraham Bromberg Collection (Part II, Superior, 10 December 1992), lot 540; El Fawar 1978 Hoard (Mildenberg no. 26).