‘Judaea Capta’ Aureus

224, Lot: 514. Estimate $7500. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. AV Aureus (20mm, 6.83 g, 6h). Judaea Capta type. Rome mint. Struck AD 69-70. Laureate head right / Judaea seated right in mourning; trophy to left; JUDAEA in exergue. RIC II 1; Hendin 758; Calicó 643a. Good Fine.

When Vespasian was proclaimed emperor by the legions in the East in AD 69, he left his son Titus to quell the Jewish uprising led by the Zealots, John of Gischala and Simon bar Giora. Titus accomplished the task in 70 AD, and in the following year, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian celebrated a splendid triumph in Rome. Several different reverse types were employed on the coinage of the Flavians to commemorate the triumph.