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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 2788452, member: 82616&quot;]Recent scholarship sees the war starting not so much because of anti-Roman sentiment among the Jews (although there was plenty of that), but more because of an inter-Polis feud between Jewish Jerusalem and Greek Caesarea Maritima that got out of control. See Steve Mason&#039;s <i>The Jewish War</i> - it is certainly the best scholarly treatment of the subject I&#039;ve yet read.</p><p><br /></p><p>And to keep it coin related.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]647064[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Vespasian</b></p><p>AR Denarius, 2.71g</p><p>Rome Mint, 69-70 AD</p><p>RIC 4 (R), BMC 43, RSC 229</p><p>Obv: IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG; Head of Vespasian, laureate, r.</p><p>Rev: IVDAEA in ex.; Jewess (as type of Judaea), draped and veiled, seated r. on ground, head inclined downwards, l. knee drawn up, hand bound behind back and fastened to palm-tree</p><p>Acquired from Zuzim Judaea, May 2012.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust</i></p><p><i>The faithless column and the crumbling bust, ...</i></p><p><i>Convinced, she now contracts her vast design,</i></p><p><i>And all her triumphs shrink into a coin.</i></p><p><i>A narrow orb each crowded conquest keeps,</i></p><p><i>Beneath her palm here sad Judaea weeps.</i></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>Alexander Pope, <i>To Mr. Addison</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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