Vespasian, 69-79. AV-Aureus, 69/70, Rome; 7,23 g IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG laureate bust of Vespasian to r.//IVDAEA in exergue; the personification of the mourning Judaea having leaned her head on her raised r. hand is seated r. at the foot of a trophy (tropaion). BN 89 no. 20-22; Calicò no. 643b; Hendin no. 1464; RIC² no. 1.

Very rare in this state of preservation. Nearly extremely fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 300.

For the personification of Judaea cf. J. Ostrowski, Les personifications des provinces dans l’art romain, Warsaw 1990, 178-183. The tropaion is a monument set up by the Greeks and Romans at the place where they had started to defeat the foe and to put him to rout. In this context the Greek word trepo (τρέπω) means 'to force someone to turn'.