VESPASIAN SILVER TETRADRACHM – ANTIOCH ISSUE OF HOLY YEAR 3 – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN OF THE 12 CAESARS (Inv. 21001)

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20964. ROMAN EMPIRE. VESPASIAN, AD 69–79.
Silver Tetradrachm, 14.54 g, 27 mm. Roman provincial issue minted at Antioch and dated “Holy Year” 3 (AD 70/71).
Obv. AVTOKPAT KAIΣA OVЄΣΠAΣIANOV, laureate head of Vespasian right. Rev. ЄTOYC Γ IЄPOY (New Holy Year 3), eagle standing left on club, palm in left field.
RPC II, 1947; McAlee 336; Prieur 113.
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 3/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed,” “die shift,” dark gray toning with silvery blue highlights. Struck at the same time (AD 70) that Jerusalem was stormed and sacked by the Romans during the First Jewish War.