296, Lot: 261. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.80 g, 6h). “Judaea Capta” commemorative. Rome mint. Struck AD 71. Laureate head right / IVDAEA CAPTA, palm tree; to left, Vespasian standing right, with left foot set on helmet, holding spear and parazonium; to right, Jewess, in attitude of mourning, seated right on cuirass. RIC II 167; Hendin 1504. VF, green surfaces, some smoothing and tooling.