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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 419734, member: 15481&quot;]As I have no significant dealers or coin shows near where I live, I haven&#039;t gotten the opportunity to come close to any collectible coins but my own collection.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Two years ago, I bought a lot of Roman provincial coins. I hadn&#039;t been collecting ancient coins for a long time, so it wasn&#039;t until I got them in the mail I started to research what I had bought. Among the coins was a tetradrachm of Vespasian, minted somewhere in Syria around 70 AD. It could possibly have been minted in Antioch, Syria, but also at one of the mints that the Roman army would take with them to make money for soldiers wages etc.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As many of you probably know, the Roman army was at this point in history eangaged in crushing the jewish revolt in Judea. After retaking Jerusalem, they sacked and burned the temple of Solomon in 70 AD. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What struck me one day when I was holding this coin, was the possibility that it could have been made with silver looted from the temple, and that this wasn&#039;t even unlikely. I have been an avid collector of ancient coins ever since.</p><p><img src="http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x317/svessien/Roman/VespasianSyriaAntioch69-70ADARTetra.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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