BITHYNIA, Koinon of Bithynia. Titus. As Caesar, AD 69-79. Æ (29mm, 13.96 g, 6h). Judaea Capta issue. M. Maecius Rufus, proconsul Bithyniae. ΛYTOKPΛ TITOΣ KΛIΣΛP ΣEBAΣ YIOΣ, laureate head right / EΠI M MAIKIOY POYΦOY ANΘYΠATOY, palm tree flanked to left by two spears and helmet set on cuirass, and to right by two shields and two spears. RG 16; NLJ 139; Hendin 6606a; Shoshana I 20539 = RPC II 604.9 (this coin); Stumpf 366 . Green and red-brown patina, minor pitting. EF. Very rare and the finest known.
Ex Shoshana Collection (Part I, Heritage 3003, 8 March 2012), lot 20539; Numismatic Fine Arts XX (9 March 1988), lot 152 (weight in error).