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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.20 g), 132-135 CE. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). ‘Si-
mon’ (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 85.7 (O12/R44; this coin); TJC
267; Hendin 1411). Struck on a huge flan. Lustrous and lightly toned. Superb extremely fine. $ 4,000
Purchased privately from H. Kriendler, November 1995; Ex Frank Sternberg (Zurich).
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.36 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 Cove-
nant 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 55.18 (O13/R41; this coin);
TJC 267; Hendin 1411).
The Mildenberg plate coin.
Overstruck on a Tetradrachm of Hadrian. Toned.
Extremely fine.
$ 3,500
ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part I (Superior, 5 December 1991), lot 104.