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Choice Quality Undated (Year 3) Silver Sela
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.20 g), 132-135 CE. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 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.
‘For the freedom of Jerusalem’ (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 54.1 (O13/R40; this
coin); TJC 267; Hendin 1411).
Very rare - only five specimens cited by Mildenberg, this being the plate coin.
Toned. Extremely fine.
$ 4,000
ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part II (Superior, 10 December 1992), lot 418.
Beautiful Quality Bar Kokhba Revolt Silver Sela
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.49 g), 132-135 CE. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5
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.
‘For the freedom of Jerusalem’ (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 53 (O13/R39); TJC 267;
Hendin 1411).
Very rare - only six specimens cited by Mildenberg.
Delicately toned. Extremely fine. $ 4,000
Purchased privately from D. Hendin, February 1992.