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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Twelve Caesars| > |Titus| > RP78052
Titus, 24 June 79 - 13 September 81 A.D., Berytos, Phoenicia
|Titus|, |Titus,| |24| |June| |79| |-| |13| |September| |81| |A.D.,| |Berytos,| |Phoenicia|, Named for the daughter of Augustus, Colonia Iulia Augusta Felix Berytus was founded in 14 B.C. with veterans of the 5th and 8th legions. Herod the Great, Herod Agrippa I, and Herod Agrippa II built sumptuous monuments and sponsored gladiatorial combats at Berytos. After the siege of Jerusalem, Titus gave gladiatorial games at Berytos, in which the combatants were Jews.
RP78052. Bronze AE 25, RPC II 2045; Rouvier 513; BMC Phoenicia p. 63, 80; Lindgren-Kovacs 2257, F, legends partially unstruck, tight flan, Berytos (Beirut, Lebanon) mint, weight 13.319g, maximum diameter 25.1mm, obverse IMP T CAESAR AVG F, bare head left; reverse COL IVL AVG, priest with yoke of two oxen right, plowing the pomerium (sacred boundary), founding the new colony; from the Butte College Foundation, ex Lindgren; SOLD




  







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