401, Lot: 472. Estimate $750. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 25.71 g, 6h). “Judaea Capta” commemorative. Rome mint. Struck AD 71. Laureate head right / IVDAEA CAPTA, S C in exergue, palm tree; to left, Vespasian standing right, foot on helmet, holding spear and parazonium; to right, Judaea seated right on cuirass, in attitude of mourning. RIC II 167 (see note 49); Hendin 1504. Near VF, reddish-brown patina with tan highlights, touches of green, some minor smoothing.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Reportedly ex Earl Fitzwilliam’s Wentworth Estates Company Collection (Christie’s, 30 May 1949), lot 400 (part of), with an old collector’s ticket.

In note 49, the authors of RIC state that there “is an obv die reading COS II (e.g., G&M 130 8/3/2004 2066) – presumably an engraver’s error.” The present coin has a similar obverse die to the Gorny & Mosch coin, but not the exact die, which means that the engraver prepared at least two dies with the COS II error.