Bronze coin, Bithynia; 14,24 g.

AΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΤΙΤΟΣ KAIΣAP ΣΕΒΑΣ ΥΙΟΣ (Imperator Titus Caesar, son of the Augustus/Emperor) laureate bust to right//EΠΙ Μ ΜΑΙΚΙΟΥ ΡΟΥΦΟΥ ΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΟΥ ([minted] under the proconsul/governour Maecius Rufus) a date palm, below captured Jewish weapons: to l. cuirass, helmet, and two spears, to r. shield and two spears. Recueil Waddington I 2, 237 f. no. 16; Hendin no. 1575;  RPC no. 604; SNG von Aulock no. 6910; G. Stumpf, Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien, Saarbrücken 1991, no. 366.

Rare. Nearly very fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 351.

The coin was minted by the Bithynian League/Koinon, as Maecius Rufus is attested as a governor of the province of Pontus-Bithynia during the reign of Vespasian, cf. B.E. Thomasson, Laterculi praesidum I, Göteborg 1984, 245 no. 16. This coin also witnesses how intensively and widely the victory over the Jews was celebrated and propagated in all parts of the Roman empire.