Two Very Rare Judaean Issues

CNG 102, Lot: 915. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Titus. AD 79-81. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 25.27 g, 7h). Judaea Capta issue. Uncertain Eastern mint (Thrace?). Struck AD 80-81. Laureate head right / [IVDAE]A CAPTA, S C in exergue, Palm tree; on left, Titus standing right, foot set on helmet, holding spear and parazonium; on right, Jewess seated right on cuirass in attitude of mourning. RIC II 502; Hendin 1597; RPC II –. VF, dark brown surfaces with touches of red, some roughness, smoothing, deposits. Very rare.