Triton XX, Lot: 687. Estimate $1000. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 26.02 g, 7h). “Judaea Capta” commemorative. Rome mint. Struck AD 71. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS III, laureate head right / VIC [TORI]A AVGVSTI, S C in exergue, Victory standing right, foot on helmet, inscribing with her right hand a shield held in her left hand and set on palm tree; to right, Jewess seated right in attitude of mourning. RIC II 221; Hendin 1508; BMCRE 582-3; BN 561. VF, dark green patina, lightly smoothed.
Ex Heritage 3026 (25 September 2013), lot 23372; Shoshana Collection (Heritage 3018, 5 September 2012), lot 20314.