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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Twelve Caesars| > |Vespasian| > RB91564
Vespasian, 1 July 69 - 24 June 79 A.D.
|Vespasian|, |Vespasian,| |1| |July| |69| |-| |24| |June| |79| |A.D.|, In 72 A.D. the Roman governor Lucius Flavius Silva laid siege to Masada, a desert fortress, the last outpost of the Jewish rebels following the end in 70 of the First Jewish Revolt. The Legio X Fretensis surrounded the mountain fortress with a 7-mile long siege wall and built a rampart of stones and beaten earth against the western approach. In the Spring of 73 A.D., 960 Zealots under the leadership of Eleazar ben Ya'ir committed mass suicide when defeat became imminent.
RB91564. Orichalcum dupondius, RIC II 1191, BMCRE II 816, BnF III 817, Cohen I 301, SRCV I 2349, VF, excellent portrait, spots of corrosion on reverse, edge split/crack, Lugdunum (Lyon, France) mint, weight 9.295g, maximum diameter 27.5mm, die axis 225o, 72 A.D.; obverse IMP CAESAR VESPASIAN AVG COS IIII, radiate head right, globe at point of bust; reverse PAX AVG (the peace of the Emperor), Pax standing left, sacrificing with right from patera over burning altar, caduceus and branch in left, S - C across fields; from the Maxwell Hunt Collection; SOLD











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