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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Æ Small Bronze (5.29 g), 132-135 CE. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5
CE). ‘Jerusalem’ (Paleo-Hebrew), seven-branched palm tree with two bunches of dates. Rev. ‘For the
freedom of Jerusalem’ (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with branch and small leaf. (Mildenberg 156 (O4/
R6); TJC 301; Hendin 1439).
Very rare - only six specimens cited in Mildenberg.
Dark green patina.
Extremely fine.
$ 400
Purchased privately from D. Hendin, February 1987.
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Æ Small Bronze (5.29 g), 132-135 CE. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5
CE). ‘Jerusalem’ (Paleo-Hebrew), seven-branched palm tree with two bunches of dates. Rev. ‘For the
freedom of Jerusalem’ (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with branch and small leaf. (Mildenberg 157 (O4/
R7); TJC 301; Hendin 1439).
Fourteen specimens cited in Mildenberg.
An unusually choice example. Dark
green patina. Extremely fine.
$ 400
ex Dr. Jonathan A. Herbst Collection (Superior, 8-9 December 1995), lot 1320.
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Æ Small Bronze (4.97 g), 132-135 CE. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5
CE). ‘Simon’ (Paleo-Hebrew), seven-branched palm tree with two bunches of dates. Rev. ‘For the freedom
of Jerusalem’ (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with branch and small leaf. (Mildenberg 159 (O4/R9); TJC
302b; Hendin 1440).
Very rare - only five specimens cited by Mildenberg.
Well struck on a broad flan. Pleasing
earthen patina. Extremely fine.
$ 400
Purchased privately from D. Hendin at the NYINC, December 1991.
While the previous two small bronze varieties naming Eleazar and Jerusalem, respectively, are peculiar to the third year (134/5 CE)
of the Bar Kochba War, this and the following small bronze employs the obverse paleo-Hebrew legend naming Simon following the
tradition established for the small bronze denomination already in the first year (132/3 CE) of the war.