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Titus as Caesar. 70-79 AD. Sestertius, 27.24g. (6h). Lugdunum, 77-8 AD. Obv: [T] CAES IMP AVG F PON TR P COS VI CENSOR Head laureate right, globe below point of neck. Rx: IVDAEA - CAPTA S C Judaea seated right on cuirass in attitude of mourning under palm tree, Jew with hands tied behind back standing right on other side of tree, shield on ground behind Jew and other captured arms before Judaea. RIC 1245 (R ). Giard, Lyon 100, pl. L (unique in BM) = BMC II, 2nd ed., Addenda p. 432. Obverse somewhat porous. About Very Fine.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, acquired from David Hendin.
A rare type on Lugdunese sestertii of Titus. Not in Cohen or the Paris collection, and apparently unknown until the BM acquired a specimen in 1935. That BM coin was the only one recorded by Giard in his Lyon monograph, no. 100. Another specimen, from the same dies as the present one, was in Berk 151, 1 November 2006, lot 497, and the RIC authors must also have known a couple of other examples to justify lowering their rarity rating to R.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, acquired from David Hendin.
A rare type on Lugdunese sestertii of Titus. Not in Cohen or the Paris collection, and apparently unknown until the BM acquired a specimen in 1935. That BM coin was the only one recorded by Giard in his Lyon monograph, no. 100. Another specimen, from the same dies as the present one, was in Berk 151, 1 November 2006, lot 497, and the RIC authors must also have known a couple of other examples to justify lowering their rarity rating to R.