Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 570. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $5210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Sestertius (27.18 g, 6h). Judaea Capta issue. Rome mint. Struck AD 71. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS III, laureate head right / IVDAE-A CAPTA, S C in exergue, palm tree; to left, Vespasian standing right, left foot on helmet, holding spear in right hand, cradling parazonium in left arm; to right, Jewess, in attitude of mourning, seated right on cuirass. RIC II 167; Hendin 775; Brin 45; Cayon p. 267, 76 (this coin illustrated as specimen 7); BMCRE 543-6; BN 497-8. VF, brown patina, some smoothing in fields and light roughness.

Ex Münzhandlung Basel 1 (28 June 1934), lot 332; Mossberg Collection, 1946.