Roman Silver & Bronze
Lot 3433 Session 11 (9.30am Friday) Roman Silver & Bronze
Estimate $2,000
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VESPASIAN, (A.D. 69-79), silver denarius, Antioch mint, issue of A.D. 72-73, (3.290 grams), obv. [IMP CAES VE]SP AV G P M COS IIII, laureate head to right, rev. Judaea seated to right behind palm tree and the emperor in military dress with right foot on helmet, holding spear and parazonium, no inscription, (S.2278, RIC 363, Brin 31, BMC 510, RSC 645, H.763 [206]). Toned, weak legends on obverse, otherwise nearly extremely fine and very rare.
While technically the war was concluded in A.D. 70, a valiant group of Jews led by Eleazer, son of Jair, held out in the Dead Sea fortress of Masada through the time this coin was minted in 72-3. There, at the fortress which King Herod had built, with its twenty foot high walls and accompanying thirty eight towers, this heroic band fought against Roman armies and the long siege, never capitulating and finally commiting suicide en masse.
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