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Judaea. Hadrian Æ23 of Aelia Capitolina. 117-138 CE. [IMP CAES] TRAIANO HAD[RIANO AVG P P], laureate and draped bust right / COL AE[L KAPIT], veiled figure ploughing right with two oxen; vexillum behind, COND in exergue. RPC III 3964; Kadman 1; Meshorer, Aelia 2; Sofaer 3-4. 11.01g, 23mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
From the Yacob and Tali Shavleyan Collection;
Ex Morton & Eden Ltd., Auction 57, 3 July 2012, lot 160 (part of).
This issue commemorates Hadrian's refounding of the city of Jerusalem under the new name of Aelia Capitolina. The reverse type depicts the plowing of the city boundary, alluding to an archaic Roman ceremony known as the sulcus primigenius.
The dating of the issue is uncertain due to the debate over whether Hadrian's refounding of the city came before or after the Bar Kochba Revolt of 132-153 CE. Cassius Dio (69.11-15) suggested the city was founded after Hadrian's visit to Palestine in 130 CE and the occupation, as well the foundation of a temple dedicated to the Capitoline Triad of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva on an earlier religious site, caused a revolt which resulted in the outbreak of the Bar Kochba war in 132 CE. A contradictory version of events was recorded by Eusebius (Historia Ecclesiastica IV, 6), who proposed Jerusalem was refounded as a pagan city as a consequence of the revolt. The numismatic evidence favours the account of Cassius Dio, since the early foundation issues minted under Hadrian have been found in hoards of Bar Kochba coins (see Meshorer, "The Coin Hoard in the Area of Mount Hebron," in S. Dar, Mount Hebron, 1970, pp. 67-9 and H. Eshel, "A Coin of Bar Kochba from a Cave in Wadi el-Mackuk," INJ 9, 1986-7, pp. 51-2).
Good Fine.
From the Yacob and Tali Shavleyan Collection;
Ex Morton & Eden Ltd., Auction 57, 3 July 2012, lot 160 (part of).
This issue commemorates Hadrian's refounding of the city of Jerusalem under the new name of Aelia Capitolina. The reverse type depicts the plowing of the city boundary, alluding to an archaic Roman ceremony known as the sulcus primigenius.
The dating of the issue is uncertain due to the debate over whether Hadrian's refounding of the city came before or after the Bar Kochba Revolt of 132-153 CE. Cassius Dio (69.11-15) suggested the city was founded after Hadrian's visit to Palestine in 130 CE and the occupation, as well the foundation of a temple dedicated to the Capitoline Triad of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva on an earlier religious site, caused a revolt which resulted in the outbreak of the Bar Kochba war in 132 CE. A contradictory version of events was recorded by Eusebius (Historia Ecclesiastica IV, 6), who proposed Jerusalem was refounded as a pagan city as a consequence of the revolt. The numismatic evidence favours the account of Cassius Dio, since the early foundation issues minted under Hadrian have been found in hoards of Bar Kochba coins (see Meshorer, "The Coin Hoard in the Area of Mount Hebron," in S. Dar, Mount Hebron, 1970, pp. 67-9 and H. Eshel, "A Coin of Bar Kochba from a Cave in Wadi el-Mackuk," INJ 9, 1986-7, pp. 51-2).