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Ex Bromberg Cover Coin Year Two Silver Sela
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.02 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). ‘Jerusalem’ (Paleo
Hebrew), tetrastyle façade of the Temple of Jerusalem; show bread table or Ark of the Covenant in chest
form with semicircular lid and short legs, seen from a narrow side. Rev. ‘Year two of the freedom of Israel’
(Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 9.8 (O1/R8; this coin); TJC 229; Hendin 1385).
Rare
- only ten specimens cited by Mildenberg.
The cover coin from Bromberg II, and overstruck on a tetradrachm
of Nero from Antioch. Toned. Superb extremely fine.
$ 10,000
ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part. II (Superior, 10 December 1992), lot 394 (cover coin)
ex Beit Mirsim Hoard.
Very Rare H-1385 Hybrid Year Two Silver Sela
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.02 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). ‘Jerusalem’ (Paleo
Hebrew), tetrastyle façade of the Temple of Jerusalem; show bread table or Ark of the Covenant in chest
form with semicircular lid and short legs, seen from a narrow side. Rev. ‘Year two of the freedom of Israel’
(Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 7 (O1/R5); TJC 229; Hendin 1385).
Very rare - only
six specimens cited by Mildenberg.
Toned. Nearly extremely fine.
$ 8,000
Purchased privately from H. Kriendler, November 2003.
A hybrid issue as this sela was struck with an obverse die used on the first year of issue.