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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8290344, member: 26430&quot;]Great Judaea Capta Sestertius! I recently posted this one (AE As), sort of the reverse situation. CNG had it attributed as the Lyon mint, 79 CE (COS VIII / IVDAEA CAPTA), RIC II 1233; Lyon 91; Hendin GBC 6, 6593. But I believe it was the earlier Rome, 71 CE issue (COS III / spelled IVDEA), RIC (II.1) 305; Hendin (GBC 5) 1554 (b). Prior to that Mark Salton-Schlessinger had it as a Dupondius (c. 1957).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1465360[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]1465361[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The following one was misidentified by Roma numismatics when Orfew bought it (which you&#039;ve seen and commented on then, David), given the&nbsp; wrong RIC number (105, should be RIC 103) for the male and female captives in different positions.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one was potentially also &quot;misinterpreted&quot; by the prior collector, Shlomo Moussaief, who seems to have included it in his &quot;Judaea Capta&quot; collection (that was the focus of his Flavians, anyway, and a major collecting interest of his). Personally I find the evidence much more compelling that this is a Britannia / Caledonia issue, being an IMP XV issue (<i>Cassius Dio</i>, LXVI, 20, 3: &quot;As a result of these events in Britain Titus received the title of imperator for the fifteenth time&quot;). Of course, the coin could have celebrated prior events, just seems less likely.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1465364[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve also posted these two Alexander the Great types before, both of which were misattributed as something more common by the same auctioneer in different auctions. A rare Price 2712 type and a hemidrachm (difficult denomination).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1465362[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1465363[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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