Trajan, 98-117. Restitution issue for Vespasian. AV-Aureus, ca. 107, Rome; 7,21 g IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG COS VIIII (legend inwards) laureate bust of Vespasianus to r.//IMP CAES TRAIAN AVG GER DAC P P REST trophy, in front of it a kneeling Jewish prisoner of war whose hands were bound behind his back. Calicò -; Komnick 129, H. a. and pl. 26, H. a. (this coin illustrated); RIC -; Woytek, Die Reichsprägung des Kaisers Trajan, 528 no. 863 (this coin illustrated).

Extremely rare hybrid issue: One of two coins known to Woytek. Rough surfaces, good very fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 354.

Ex Sternberg 6, Zurich 1976, no. 475.

Vespasian’s self-staging as the victor over the rebellious Jews had so sustainably inscribed itself into the Romans’ collective cultural memory that under Trajan aurei alluding to the suppression of the Jewish riot were minted as a restitution issue.