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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TJC, post: 1850053, member: 45502&quot;]This is another NYINC pick-up<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; A couple of issues but overall a nice coin with historical significance.&nbsp; I also like that TITUS is in the legend and is read from outside the coin.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Titus</b>. Denarius.&nbsp; Rome, 79 AD.</p><p>&quot;Judea Capita&quot;</p><p>Obv: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG PM, Head laureate right.</p><p>Rx: TR P VIIII IMP XIIII COS VII PP, male captive, bound, kneeling in front of trophy</p><p><br /></p><p>Sear 2493: “- bound captive a foot of trophy. RIC 17 BMCRE 30. CBN -. C 296. [Rome 79.]</p><p>This reverse and the following refer either to victory over Judea or…activities in northern Britain of celebrated governor Gnaenus Julius Agricola, father-in-law of historian Tacitus”</p><p><br /></p><p>Because of the &quot;IMP XIIII&quot; refers to the year 67 I believe it does commemorate a victory&nbsp; Titus in Judea.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus</a>[ATTACH=full]308937[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]308939[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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