Watch List notes:

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Sela – Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 15.34 g, 1h). Undated, but attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). Façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; showbread table within, star above, "Shim'on" (in Hebrew) at sides / Bundle of lulav; etrog to left, "For the Freedom of Jerusalem" (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 56.11 (O13/R42 - this coin, illustrated); Meshorer 267; Hendin 1411; Bromberg 420 (this coin); Shoshana II 20335 (same dies); Sofaer 107–13; Spaer 193 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned. Overstruck on a Tyre tetradrachm of Trajan.


From the collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex John F. Sullivan Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 70, 21 September 2005), lot 399; Abraham Bromberg Collection (Superior Galleries, 10 December 1992), lot 420; Dahariÿeh, 1976 Hoard.