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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.13 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 40 (O10/R28); TJC 233; Hendin 1388).
Very
Rare - only six specimens cited by Mildenberg.
Interesting die-break on the obverse. Lightly toned.
Extremely fine.
$ 5,000
Purchased privately from NFA, June 1993.
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (13.55 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 43 (O11/R30); TJC 233; Hendin 1388).
Rare
- only eleven specimens cited by Mildenberg.
Lightly toned with lustrous surfaces.
Extremely fine.
$ 5,000
Purchased privately from NFA, August 1991.