Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1262. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem). Hadrian. 117-138 CE. Æ 22mm (11.03 gm, 11h). Struck 136 CE. IMP CAES TRAIANO HADRIANO AVG P P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust / COL AEL KAPIT, COND in exergue, Hadrian, as priest-founder, plowing with team of oxen right; vexillum behind. Meshorer, Aelia 2; Hendin 810; SNG ANS -. VF, adjustment marks, dark brown patina. The first coinage of the new colony. ($300)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (4 December 1996), lot 1106.

Upon the defeat of the rebel bar-Kochba and the recapture of Jerusalem, a rebellion precipitated, in part, by Hadrian's desire to refound that city as a Roman colony, rebuilding was resumed. Named Aelia Capitolina, the new city was laid out like any other Roman city. Now to be settled by veterans, a detachment of the Legio X Fretensis was stationed there to fulfil the additional imperial stipulation all Jews to be banned from entering its environs.