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Lot number: 184

Price realized: 6,500 CHF   (Approx. 7,389 USD / 6,862 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 14.52 g, 1 h), undated, but attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). 'Shim'on' (in Hebrew) Façade of the Temple at Jerusalem; showbread table within; above, star. Rev. 'For the Freedom of Jerusalem' (in Hebrew) Bundle of lulav; to left, etrog. Hendin 1411. Meshorer 267. Mildenberg 77. The usual traces of overstriking, otherwise, good very fine.


From the James Knox Collection of Biblical related coins, formed since summer 1991.

This coin was overstruck on an Antioch tetradrachm of Nero (cf. RPC I 4188). Traces of the legend and devices are visible on the obverse and reverse.

Starting price: 1000 CHF