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Auction X 13 January 2013
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Titus as Caesar. 70-79 AD. Denarius, 3.22g. (6h). Rome, 72-3 AD. Obv: T CAES IMP VESP PON TR POT Head laureate right. Rx: No legend. Standing emperor, left foot on globe, holding spear and parazonium, and seated mourning Judaea on either side of palm tree. RIC 369 (R2). BM 85. Cohen 392 (10 Fr.) var. Cf. Paris 74 (aureus). Fine style, iridescent toning, flaw in right obverse field. Good VF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from Tom Cederlind.
This Judaea Capta type is comparatively common at Antioch (portrait draped and cuirassed), but rare at Rome (portrait head only). RIC 369 rates the Rome-mint denarius R2, "very few examples known", and the Paris collection lacks a specimen of this coin. CoinArchives contains 26 denarii of this type, 24 of them struck at Antioch and only two struck at Rome. The same obverse die was also used for an aureus with reverse Emperor in triumphal quadriga right: Gemini IX, 8 January 2012, Harry Sneh Collection, lot 304.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from Tom Cederlind.
This Judaea Capta type is comparatively common at Antioch (portrait draped and cuirassed), but rare at Rome (portrait head only). RIC 369 rates the Rome-mint denarius R2, "very few examples known", and the Paris collection lacks a specimen of this coin. CoinArchives contains 26 denarii of this type, 24 of them struck at Antioch and only two struck at Rome. The same obverse die was also used for an aureus with reverse Emperor in triumphal quadriga right: Gemini IX, 8 January 2012, Harry Sneh Collection, lot 304.