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80, Lot: 111. Estimate $100.
Sold for $105. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

A. Plautius. 55 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.06 gm). Turreted head of Cybele right; A PLAVTIVS before, AED CVR S C behind / Aristobulus kneeling right, extending olive-branch, camel at his side; BACCHIVS in exergue, IVDAEVS on right. Crawford 431/1; Sydenham 932; BMCRR 3916; Plautia 13. Nice VF.

While much speculation surrounds the identity of the surrendering person on the reverse, it is most likely Aristobulus, the Jewish high priest, who surrendered to Pompey in 63 BC and was subsequently paraded though Rome. His imprisonment, escape, and re-imprisonment in Rome, circa 56 BC, would make him the most notible Judean in Rome at the time of this issue (see M. Harlan, Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coinage, 63-49 BC).