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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.70 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 63.16 (O14/
R48; this coin); TJC 267; Hendin 1411). Mildenberg cites 25 specimens, this being the one chosen to
illustrate the dies. Boldly struck and nicely toned. Extremely fine.
$ 4,000
ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part I (Superior, 5 December 1991), lot 109.
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.48 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 66 (O14/R51); TJC
267; Hendin 1411). Underlying luster still present. Delicately toned. Extremely fine.
$ 4,000
Purchased privately from D. Hendin at the NYINC, December 1992.