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Lot 771

Estimate: 500 USD
Price realized: 1300 USD
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Titus as Caesar. 70-79 AD. Tetradrachm, 14.77g. (12h). Caesarea Maritima, Judaea, Year 3=70/71 AD. Obv: AYTOKP TITOC - KAIΣ OYECΠ Bust laureate right with aegis on shoulder. Rx: ETOYΣ Γ - IEPOY Eagle with spread wings and wreath in beak standing left on palm branch, club before him. RPC 1967 (32 spec., 8 obv. dies). Prieur 140 (17 spec.). McAlee 379. An exceptionally attractive and well-centered specimen of this rare and historically important tetradrachm, which is usually found more worn and off center on an undersize flan. VF.

Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, acquired from Ephesus (Paul Landsberg).

This issue centering on Titus and dated to 70/71 AD may have been struck at Caesarea Maritima in Judaea in association with the Judaea Capta coins, soon after Titus' capture of Jerusalem in c. August 70 AD; cf. RPC, p. 276, following McAlee, pp. 121-2.
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