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Auction X 13 January 2013
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Titus. 79-81 AD. Denarius, 3.54g. (7h). Rome, 80 AD. Obv: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M Head laureate left. Rx: TR P IX IMP - XV - COS VIII P P Trophy with two captives sitting at its base: a male seated left with hands bound behind back and a female seated right in attitude of mourning. RIC 105 (R2), pl. 86 = Glasgow 33, pl. 44 (same dies). C 307 (M. Hamburger, 3 Fr.). BM 37 note. Hendin 1584b (interpreting as Judaea Capta). About VF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, MBS 17, 15 December 2009, lot 222 (A. Lynn Collection).
The rarer variant of this reverse type with male captive on left and female on right rather than vice versa; very rare with portrait left. Our specimen is from the same dies as the one in Glasgow cited and illustrated by RIC; RIC apparently knew of another specimen, or possibly just an earlier appearance of our specimen, to justify the rarity rating R2 rather than R3.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, MBS 17, 15 December 2009, lot 222 (A. Lynn Collection).
The rarer variant of this reverse type with male captive on left and female on right rather than vice versa; very rare with portrait left. Our specimen is from the same dies as the one in Glasgow cited and illustrated by RIC; RIC apparently knew of another specimen, or possibly just an earlier appearance of our specimen, to justify the rarity rating R2 rather than R3.