Biblical Coins
Lot 3949 SESSION 13 (9.30am Friday) Biblical Coins
Estimate $4,000
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SOLD $5,200
PALESTINE, Judaea, Bar Kochba Revolt. (132-135 CE). silver sela or tetradrachm (13.87 grams), dated year 2 (133/4 CE), obv. "Jerusalem" in Hebrew at sides of the faáade of the Temple at Jerusalem, with Ark of the Covenant within, + above, rev. "year 2 of the freedom of Israel" in Hebrew, bundle of lulav, ethrog to left, (S.5648, Mildenberg 14 [O3/R8], Meshorer 230b, AJC II 13a; H.688, Bromberg 82 [same dies]). Good very fine with dark tone.
Ex Gen. Moshe Dayan Collection, Sotheby's, 28 October 1985, (lot 347).
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