A Rare Titus Judaea Capta Sestertius

Sometimes the coins come with a little mystery …

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It’s not often when surfing the web I come across a coin in trade and simply say “wow”. This is one of those coins. Beyond doubt one of the biggest surprise additions of the year.

A ‘True’ Judaea Capta Coin

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Judaea Capta!

Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust
The faithless column and the crumbling bust;
Huge moles, whose shadow stretched from shore to shore,
Their ruins perished, and their place no more!
Convinced, she now contracts her vast design,
And all her triumphs shrink into a coin.
A narrow orb each crowded conquest keeps,
Beneath her palm here sad Judea weeps. –
Alexander Pope, To Mr. Addison, Occasioned by his Dialogues on Medals II. 19-26

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen … Thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty in the war. And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground – Isaiah III.25-26.