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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24599453, member: 26430"]I'm still waiting for a few "latest ancients" to arrive in the mail, but here's my latest to have arrived. It combines my two favorite subcollections: (1) the history numismatic literature & knowledge as embodied in "object biography"; and (2) "captives" on Roman coins. This is a Bar Kochba rebellion "middle bronze" (25mm, 9.88g), struck in 133/4 CE, Year 2 of Shimon Bar Kochba's (Simon ben Kosiba) rebellion to overthrow Roman rule during Hadrian's reign. (Notice the remnants of the undertype portrait!) [ATTACH=full]1562915[/ATTACH] The thing I love is that it was overstruck on a Roman Provincial "Judaea Capta" coin with a portrait of Domitian, struck in Caesarea Paneas (87/8 CE) under Agrippa II, celebrating the Flavian (Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian) victory over Judaea during the "First Jewish Revolt" c. 70 CE. I believe I've even been able to find the obverse die used on the "host coin" / undertype. <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/2285" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/2285" rel="nofollow">See specimen 7 of RPC 2285</a>: [ATTACH=full]1562916[/ATTACH]caption in error: 2285 not 2258! Another thing that made it very attractive to me: It was ex-David Hendin Collection (with his handwritten circular collector tag) and was also "plate coin" No. 160A in his 1987 edition of Guide to Biblical Coins: [ATTACH=full]1562917[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]