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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Twelve Caesars| > |Vespasian| > RB86768
Vespasian, 1 July 69 - 24 June 79 A.D.
|Vespasian|, |Vespasian,| |1| |July| |69| |-| |24| |June| |79| |A.D.|, In spring 73 A.D., The Roman governor Lucius Flavius Silva laid siege to Masada, the last outpost of the Jewish rebels following the end of the First Jewish-Roman War in 70. The Roman army (Legio X Fretensis) surrounded the mountain fortress with a 7-mile long siege wall (circumvallation) and constructed a rampart of stones and beaten earth against the western approach. When their defeat was imminent, 960 Zealots under the leadership of Eleazar ben Ya'ir committed mass suicide.
RB86768. Orichalcum dupondius, RIC II 391 (R2), BnF III 566, Hunter I -, Cohen I -, BMCRE II -, SRCV I -, F, green patina with some brass showing and minor chipping, light bumps and marks, Rome mint, weight 11.849g, maximum diameter 27.0mm, die axis 0o, 72 - 73 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS IIII, radiate head right; reverse CONCORDIA AVGVSTI (to the harmony of the Emperor), Concordia seated left on draped throne without back, extending patera in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, S - C flanking below center; very rare; SOLD











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