VESPASIAN BRONZE SESTERTIUS – JUDAEA CAPTA VICTORY WITH SHIELD ISSUE PUBLISHED BY CAYON – ABOUT VF ROMAN IMPERIAL PROVENANCED AND PUBLISHED COIN OF THE 12 CAESARS (Inv. 21000)

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21000. ROMAN EMPIRE. VESPASIAN, AD 69–79.
Bronze Sestertius, 26.91 g, 33 mm. Issue of Rome, AD 71.
Obv. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG PM TR PPP COS III, laureate head of Vespasian right. Rev. VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victoria standing right, inscribing shield on a palm tree, her foot on a helmet, mourning Judaea at right, SC in exergue.
RIC II.1, 221.
Published: Cayon, Los Sestercios del Imperio Romano, 251, p. 309.
Ex Münzhandlung Basel Auktionscatalog 1 (Römische Bronzemünzen einer alten fürstlichen Sammlung und aus anderem Besitz), 6/28/1934, plate 11, lot 346. The principal collection said to have that of a “Princely Family,” formed in the 19th century.
About VF, minor smoothing, a spectacularly provenanced specimen of the Judaea Capta series.