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Another Absolutely Incredible Quality Year Two Sela
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.16 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). ‘Simon’ (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; above façade, star. Rev. ‘Year two of the freedom of
Israel’ (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 29 (O6/R20); TJC 233; Hendin 1388).
Lustrous. Mint state.
$ 6,000
Purchased privately, June 1998.
Mint State Year Two Silver Sela
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (13.38 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). ‘Simon’ (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; above façade, star. Rev. ‘Year two of the freedom
of Israel’ (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 31 (O6/R22); TJC 233; Hendin 1388).
Lustrous surfaces and delicately toned. Mint State.
$ 6,000
Purchased privately from D. Hendin at the NYINC, December 1992.