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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (13.88 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 86 (O12/R66); TJC
267; Hendin 1411).
Rare - only nine specimens cited in Mildenberg.
Understriking of a Syrian Tetradrachm
of Trajan visible on the reverse. Toned. Nearly extremely fine.
$ 3,500
ex Abraham Bromberg Collection, part. II (10 December 1992), lot 432.
This marvelous sela is overstruck on a provincial tetradrachm of Trajan from Syria or Bostra in Arabia.
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.24 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 76 (O12/R59);
TJC 267; Hendin 1411).
Extremely rare - only four specimens cited by Mildenberg.
Exceptionally large head
of Trajan visible under temple. Toned. Choice very fine.
$ 3,000
Purchased privately from E. Waddell, December 2004.