Vespasian, 69-79. Æ-As, 71, Rome; 11,44 g IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS III laureate bust of Vespasian to r.//VIC-TO-RIA – NAVALIS, S C in exergue; the winged Victory standing r. on a prow, holding with her l. hand a shouldered palm frond, with her r. hand a wreath. BN 156 cf. no. 595; RIC² no. 335.

Very fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 319.

This coin shows that the Roman imperial fleet or ships of the Roman allies participated in the suppression of the Great Revolt. Victoria navalis may indicate that Roman ships destroyed a flotilla of Jewish ships on the Lake Tiberias/Sea of Galilee (mentioned by Josephus, Bellum Judaicum III 10, 9) or on the Mediterranean Sea which should have provided the rebels with reinforcements.