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Auction 30  9 January 2013
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Lot 281

Estimate: 7500 USD
Price realized: 9000 USD
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ANCIENT COINS. ROMAN. Vespasian (A.D. 69-79), AE Sestertius, 27.15g, 6h. Struck in A.D. 71. Judaea Capta series. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS III, laureate head of Vespasian facing right. Rev. IVDAEA CAPTA, palm-tree, a male captive stands on left, facing to right, mourning Jewess sits on cuirass on right, facing to right, arms lay around both figures, SC in exergue (RIC 159; BMC 532; Hendin 1500). Some light smoothing in fields, attractive dark green-brown patina, nearly extremely fine.
Ex R.C.Lockett Collection, Glendining, 26 May 1959, lot 17
Ex Abramowitz Family Collection, Superior, 8 December 1993, lot 120


Estimate: $7,500
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