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Auction X 13 January 2013
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Titus as Caesar. 70-79 AD. As, 9.55g. (6h). Rome, 73 AD. Obv: T CAES IMP PON TR P COS II CENS Head laureate right. Rx: IVDAEA - CAPTA S C Judaea seated right on cuirass in attitude of mourning below palm tree. RIC 626 (R3), pl. 42 = BM 672. Hendin 1560, pl. 50 (this coin). About VF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from David Hendin; this is the plate coin in the current fifth edition of Hendin's Guide to Biblical Coins.
Apparently only the second or third specimen recorded: the others are BM 672, acquired with the Hamburger Collection in 1908, and a specimen in an Italian private collection reported by F. Gnecchi in R. It. 1893, p. 283, which may or may not be the same coin as either BM 672 or our piece. Our coin is from the same dies as BM 672, whose reverse is illustrated in RIC, pl. 42, 626, and whose obverse die, according to RIC p. 104, note 115, is the same as RIC 638 on the same pl. 42.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from David Hendin; this is the plate coin in the current fifth edition of Hendin's Guide to Biblical Coins.
Apparently only the second or third specimen recorded: the others are BM 672, acquired with the Hamburger Collection in 1908, and a specimen in an Italian private collection reported by F. Gnecchi in R. It. 1893, p. 283, which may or may not be the same coin as either BM 672 or our piece. Our coin is from the same dies as BM 672, whose reverse is illustrated in RIC, pl. 42, 626, and whose obverse die, according to RIC p. 104, note 115, is the same as RIC 638 on the same pl. 42.