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Lot 3009 - Money of the Bible Collection - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Jewish War. Silver Shekel (13.25 g), 66-70 CE. Year 5 (April-Augustus 70 CE). 'Shekel of Israel' around, 'year 5' above, omer cup with pearled rim. Reverse: 'Jerusalem the holy', sprig of three pomegranates. TJC 215; Hendin 1370 (this coin); Menorah Coin Project FJR 16, dies O1/R1 (this coin illustrated). Extremely Rare and of great importance. Lightly toned. Extremely Fine/Very Fine. Jewish War Year 5 Shekel The Year 5 Shekel is extremely rare. According to the Menorah Coin Project, our coin is one of only ten known which share this obverse die, the same die as found on all of the Year 5 shekels excavated at the mountain-top fortress of Masada, thus making a total of only 12 examples from all known dies. Year 5 shekels are the rarest of all the shekels minted during the First Revolt. There were only four months that year to strike them before Titus captured Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple in the Fall of 70 AD. Nevertheless, during the last months of the siege when all commerce as well as the striking of bronze coins came to a halt, it was important to continue striking coins in silver in order for the Jews to continue to pay the half-shekel Temple tax, as commanded in Exodus 30.13. Several Year 5 Shekels were among the coins excavated at Masada, one of the most famous rebel strongholds against the Romans, which notoriously held out against them for three more years after Vespasian and Titus celebrated their Triumph in 71 A.D. It is therefore known that at least some Jewish fighters were able to escape Jerusalem just before it fell. After the war, it was forbidden to use coins of the revolt, so the shekels were melted down into ingots, for their silver value. Josephus (de Bello Judaico 7.320-406) tells us that when at length it became evident that the Romans would prevail, the rebel commander of the zealot group known as the Sicarii, Eleazar ben Ya'ir, convinced his men to kill their wives and children and then to commit suicide, thereby depriving the Romans of the glory of taking them captives and sparing themselves from slavery. Estimated Value $125,000-UP. Ex Hendin plate coin. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Money of the Bible Collection	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 3025 - Money of the Bible Collection - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Bar Kochba Revolt. Silver Zuz (3.12 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). 'Shim'on', grape bunch on vine with small leaf and tendril. Reverse: 'Year two of the freedom of Israel', palm branch. Mildeberg 49 (O10/R29); TJC 248; Hendin 1394 corr. (rev. description). Underlying luster present. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $700 - 800. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Money of the Bible Collection	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 3036 - Money of the Bible Collection - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Bar Kochba Revolt. Silver Zuz (3.37 g), 132-135 CE. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). 'Shim'on', in two lines within a wreath of thin branches wrapped around eight almonds, medallion at top, and tendrils below. Reverse: 'For the freedom of Jerusalem', elongated lyre with three strings. Mildeberg 70 (O14/R42); TJC 272; Hendin 1419. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $500 - 600. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Money of the Bible Collection	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 3004 - Money of the Bible Collection - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Jewish War. Silver Shekel (14.20 g), 66-70 CE. Year 3 (68/9 CE). 'Shekel of Israel' around, 'year 3' above, omer cup with pearled rim. Reverse: 'Jerusalem the holy', sprig of three pomegranates. TJC 202a; Hendin 1361. Well struck on excellent metal with all detail bold and crisp. A magnificent example with incredible natural iridescent toning. This beauty ranks as one of the finest silver shekels we have ever seen! Superb Nearly Mint State. Estimated Value $5,000-UP. Ex Goldberg 41 (27 May 2007), 2503. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Money of the Bible Collection	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 3020 - Money of the Bible Collection - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Bar Kochba Revolt. Silver Sela (13.65 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). 'Shim'on', tetrastyle facade of the Temple of Jerusalem; Ark of the Covenant in chest form with semicircular lid and short legs, seen from a narrow side; star above. Reverse: 'Year two of the freedom of Israel', lulav with etrog at left. Cf. Mildeberg 38/36 (O8/R26) die combination not recorded; TJC 230; Hendin 1388. Extremely Rare new die combination unknown to Mildenberg. Delicately toned with underlying luster still present. Extremely Fine. Mildenberg notes that this obverse die was recut twice, the first time having the center of the balustrade reengraved, the second time having the first two letters reengraved as well as a die flaw in one of the columns removed. Of the first recutting, die O8', Mildenberg recorded several dozen specimens paired with one of two reverse dies, R26 and R27. Similarly, of the second recutting, die O8'', he knew of just five specimens, but all were paired with a single reverse die, R27. This would seemingly indicate a chronological progression of R26 followed by R27, but our coin illustrates the fallacy of this assumption as it is a new die combination pairing the second recutting of the obverse die, O8, with the reverse die R26. Estimated Value $5,000 - 6,000. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Money of the Bible Collection	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 3031 - Money of the Bible Collection - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Bar Kochba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.63 g), 132-135 CE. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). 'Shim'on', tetrastyle facade of the Temple of Jerusalem; Ark of the Covenant in chest form with semicircular lid and short legs, seen from a narrow side; star above. Reverse: 'For the freedom of Israel', lulav with etrog at left. Mildeberg 73 (O11/R42); TJC 267; Hendin 1411. Rare - only five specimens recorded by Mildenberg. Well struck with the lulav in high relief. Underlying luster present. Nearly Mint State. Estimated Value $4,000 - 6,000. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Money of the Bible Collection	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 3047 - Money of the Bible Collection - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Titus. Æ Sestertius (25.87 g), AD 79-81. Rome, AD 80/1. View of the Amphitheatrum Flavium (the Colosseum) between the Meta Sudans, on left, and porticoed building, on right; the exterior of the monument showing four tiers with a varying number of arches, some empty and some with statuary; the interior shows the seating filled with spectators, steps, and the emperor's viewing box. Reverse: IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII, S C across field, emperor seated left on curule chair, holding branch and scroll; around, various arms. RIC 184; BMC 190, pl. 50, 2 (same dies); BN 189 (same rev. die); Kent-Hirmer pl. 68, 239 (obv. only illus.). Hendin 1594. Very rare and much sought-after as the famous monument of Italy, if not of all antiquity. Struck on a very broad flan, pleasing reddish-brown patina. Choice Very Fine. Titus Colosseum Sestertius The Flavian Amphitheater, also known as the Colosseum, was built in several stages. Its construction was begun in the reign of Vespasian, added onto by Titus, and completed by Domitian. The structure of the Colosseum consisted of four stories, the lowest level corresponding to the Doric / Tuscan style, the second story to the Ionic, the third to Corinthian, these built by Vespasian between 71 and 75 A.D. The fourth story gallery of Corinthian pilasters was added by Titus in 80 A.D. to provide more seating. It was dedicated in 80 A.D., in a hundred-day celebration. This sestertius and its series illustrates the first time an artistic archaeological monument is tied to the numismatic 'Judaea Capta' bronzes. It is only in the last few years that two other excellent examples of this sestertius type of Titus have entered the market. The relief on the surfaces of these coins has been of a high enough state of preservation as to ascertain that the motif within the central arch on the third level actually utilizes the same iconographical elements from the Judaea Captive Bronze Coin Series: a prominent palm tree, the emperor with foot on helmet, and a Jewish captive. In other words, these well-known symbols of the defeat of Judaea represented on coinage was also glorified by a life-size bronze group fashioned by a master sculptor. The building of the structure was funded by the spoils of the Jewish War. This is attested by a reconstructed "ghost inscription," discovered on the architrave of one of the side entrances to the Colosseum. [A "ghost inscription" is a cluster of pin holes once used to attach metal letters to monumental surface.] In 1995 Geza Alfoldy of the University of Heidelberg reconstructed this early, underlying (so-called "ghost inscription") as follows: "The Emperor Titus Caesar Vespasian Augustus ordered the new amphitheater to be made from the (proceeds from the sale of the) booty." From the Letter of Aristeas Josephus (Antiquitates Judaicae II.2 passim): The Temple [in Jerusalem] had been built with a lavishness and sumptuousness beyond all precedent. It was the recipient of immeasurable gifts and was the repository of all manner of sacred treasures of massive gold. The treasury held "infinite sums of money." In particular, Josephus asserts that the menorah and the altar, each made of gold, weighed no less than two talents. According to Josephus 97,000 Jews were taken into captivity (de Bello Judaico 6.93). This may be the source of the tradition, otherwise unattested, that Jews actually built the Colosseum [Louis H. Feldman]. Accordingly, captive Jews provided the unskilled workforce, working in the travertine quarries in Tivoli, and transporting the stones the twenty miles to Rome. The Flavians endeavored to eradicate the Jews by destroying the Temple in Jerusalem, killing, enslaving or exiling the Jews from Judaea, and by forbidding the practice of Judaism. The Flavian Amphitheater was financed by the spoils of the Jewish War and built by the labor of the Jews. Its very presence was a tangible announcement of the glory that was Rome and an exultation of the primacy and power of the emperor. Its de facto legacy was as an eternal monument to commemorate the triumph of the Flavians over Judaea. Estimated Value $90,000-UP. Ex NAC 52 (7 October 2009), 384. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Money of the Bible Collection	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 3015 - Money of the Bible Collection - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Bar Kochba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.34 g), 132-135 CE. Year 2 (133/4 CE). 'Jerusalem', tetrastyle facade of the Temple of Jerusalem; Ark of the Covenant in chest form with semicircular lid and short legs, seen from a narrow side; star above. Reverse: 'Year two of the freedom of Israel', lulav with etrog at left. Mildeberg 19 (O4/R13); TJC 230; Hendin 1386. Boldly struck with underlying luster present. Lightly toned. Superb Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $7,000 - 9,000. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Money of the Bible Collection	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 3042 - Money of the Bible Collection - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Judaea, Bar Kochba Revolt. Silver Zuz (3.34 g), 132-135 CE. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE). 'Shim'on', grape bunch on vine with tendril and small leaf. Reverse: 'For the freedom of Jerusalem', fluted jug with handle on left; no willow branch. Mildeberg 164 (O21/R89); TJC 286; Hendin 1434. Very Fine. Estimated Value $400 - 500. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Money of the Bible Collection	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 3010 - Money of the Bible Collection - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Bar Kochba Revolt. Silver Sela (14.50 g), 132-135 CE. Year 1 (132/3 CE). 'Jerusalem', tetrastyle facade of the Temple of Jerusalem; Ark of the Covenant in chest form with semicircular lid and short legs, seen from a narrow side. Reverse: 'Year one of the redemption of Israel', lulav with etrog at left. Mildenberg 3 (O1/R3); TJC 218; Hendin 1373. Very rare and an incredibly choice example of this major Judean rarity. Boldly struck on a full flan with nice wide margins on both sides. Superb Extremely Fine. Bar Kochba Silver Sela Year 1 Most of the silver Bar Kochba coins were overstruck upon tetradrachms of Antioch commonly circulating in Judaea at that time. They served as a declaration of independence from Rome, since only sovereign entities could mint coins in silver, and in their overstriking, the rebels could simultaneously insult the emperor and make nationalistic declarations. David Hendin maintains that the inscription "First Year" had an "aggressive posture… The principal motive of the coins was both political and psychological-to make bold statements of Jewish sovereignty, whether or not it actually existed, to both Jews and Romans." The Temple façade on the obverse has been variously described as a schematic depiction of the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem, or perhaps as an imaginary sketch of a rebuilt Temple to come. It has been posited that the item within the two central columns is the Ark of the Covenant, an ark holding Torah scrolls, the showbread table, or possibly a stylized generic ritual chalice. On the reverse of the sela are represented the Four Species, the most important articles Jews utilize in the ritual observance of Sukkot, known as "The Holiday" while the Temple stood in Jerusalem. The Four Species are here depicted as the central object, the lulav (a bundle comprised of three of the species) and, to its left, the etrog (the fourth species). The objects used in the ritual celebration of the festival of Sukkot is commanded in Leviticus 23:40-41: "You shall take for yourselves on the first day [of Sukkot] the fruit of the citron tree (etrog), the branches of the date palm (tamar), twigs of a plaited tree [myrtle] (aravot), and brook willows (hasadim)… You shall celebrate it [Sukkot] as a festival for God …[This is] an eternal decree for your generations." After the destruction of the Temple (70 C.E.), Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai (who had escaped from the besieged Jerusalem in a coffin) ordered that the ceremony of the Four Species should be carried out as a memorial to the Temple. (Mehahot 65a). Estimated Value $60,000-UP. Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. Pre-Long Beach Auction #90 Money of the Bible Collection	In order to view Prices please Login or Join