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Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1429. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007. 
Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Denarius (3.54 g, 6h). Judaea Capta issue. Rome mint. Struck AD 79. Laureate head left / Victory standing left, erecting trophy, beneath which is a captive seated left. RIC II 115; RSC 553. Near EF, toned.


From Collection C.G. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 46 (24 June 1998), lot 1198.

When Vespasian was proclaimed emperor by the legions in the East in AD 69, he left his son Titus to quell the Jewish uprising led by the Zealots, John of Gischala and Simon bar Giora. Titus accomplished the task in 70 AD, and in the following year, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian celebrated a splendid triumph in Rome. Several different reverse types were employed on the coinage of the Flavians to commemorate the triumph. On this type, the goddess Victory erects a trophy while the tiny form of a Jewish captive is depicted seated below.