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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cicero12, post: 5141476, member: 114838&quot;]Great coins [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER]!&nbsp; I would really like to add a palm tree variety, but they are few and far between in gold.&nbsp; I particularly like the second coin&#039;s portrait.&nbsp; I also find the transitional portraits to be very interesting.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A Judaea Capta type was the highest type on my list for years, and I finally managed to cross it off this year.&nbsp; I bought this piece unpedigreed, but happily stumbled across it in a 1979 Leu sale (while looking for another coin), and from there, tracked it to Biaggi.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/i/Cicero1212/Ves_Share.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG laureate bust of Vespasian to right.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: IVDAEA in exergue; Mourning Jewess seated right, head resting on hand in attitude of mourning; behind, tropaion.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>References: BN 89 no. 20-22; Calicò no. 643b; Hendin no. 1464; RIC² no. 1. Overbeck – Meshorer no. 300.</p><p><br /></p><p>Provenance&nbsp; Ex Samel Collection, Kunker 334, March 2020, 2285; Leu 22, May 1979, 225; ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 324; privately purchased from Ratto in 1952. Almost certainly from the Boscoreale Hoard of 1895[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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