TITUS SILVER DENARIUS – RARE JEWISH CAPTIVE UNDER TROPHY STRUCK THE YEAR VESUVIUS ERUPTED – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN OF THE 12 CAESARS (Inv. 20283)

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20283. ROMAN EMPIRE. TITUS, AD 79–81.
Silver Denarius, 2.88 g, 18 mm. Issue of Rome after July 1, AD 79.
Obv. IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M, laureate head of Titus right. Rev. TR P VIIII IMP XIIII COS VII P P, Jewish captive kneeling right, below trophy.
RIC II.1 rev, 30.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, a coin struck at the very time that the eruption of Vesuvius took place, burying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.