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Auction 12  11 January 2015
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Lot 357

Estimate: 900 USD
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Domitian, with Tenth Legion Countermarks. 81-96 AD. AE 23-25, 13.75g (0h). Samaria, Sebaste, Year 109 = 81/2 AD. Obv: [IMP DOMITIA - NVS - C]AESAR (the last S retrograde) Head laureate right; countermarks Laureate head right and LXF (Howgego 119 and 733). Rx: Tyche standing left, ethnic, and date, all eradicated; countermarks Galley and Boar right, dolphin below, [LX]F above (Howgego 410 and 291). RPC 2226 (17 spec.). Sofaer p. 64 and pl. 61-62, 1-6.. Countermarks VF, underlying coin VG

With two countermarks of Legio X Fretensis, which participated in the reconquest of Judaea and the siege of Jerusalem during the First Jewish Revolt, and was thereafter stationed in Jerusalem
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