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Beautiful ‘Wavy Line’ H-1413 Bar Kokhba Silver Sela
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.10 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, wavy
line. Rev. ‘For the freedom of Jerusalem’ (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 94 (O17/
R44); TJC 269; Hendin 1413).
Rare - only seven specimens cited by Mildenberg.
Very well struck and nicely
toned. Extremely fine.
$ 4,000
ex New York Sale XX (7-8 January 2009), lot 296.
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Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.54 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, wavy
line. Rev. ‘For the freedom of Jerusalem’ (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. (Mildenberg 95 (O17/
R65); TJC 269; Hendin 1413). Traces of understrike seen on the reverse. Lustrous.
Extremely fine.
$ 4,000
Purchased privately, January 1999.