Judea Capta
Vespasian
Rome 69-70 AD
AV Aureus 7.30g
Obv: IMP CAESAR
VESPASIANVS AVG
Laureate head of Vespasian to right
Rev: IVDAEA Mourning Jewess
seated right, her hands tied behind
her back; to left, palm tree
Ref: Biaggi 314 ; Calicó 644;
Hendin 1465; RIC 16; Vagi 899
Ex. Aureo & Calico Sebastas (Author's collection)
 Vespasian
69-79 A.D. AR Denarius
Antioch mint
Obv: Laur. hd. of emp. r.
IMP CAESAR
VESPASIANVS AVG PMCOSIII
Rev: Emperor left, Judaea or Jewess
mourning seated r. of palm
IVDAEA
Ref: Hendin 763, RSC 1930 (Author's collection) 
Arch of Titus illustrating treasure taken from Jerusalem (Rome)
TITUS (79-81 AD)
Rome. "Judaea Capta" issue
Æ Sesterius.36mm, 25.41g
Obv: IMP T CAES VESPASIAN
AVG PM TR P PP COS VIII.
Laureate head right.
Rev: IVDAEA CAPTA / S C.
Palm tree; veiled Judaea seated right
on cuirass; Captive standing right.
Ref: RIC 133
(formerly Author's collection)
 Roman iron fish hook. ca. 1st-3rd century AD. Length 117 mm. Width approx. 48 mm. Weight 23.44g (Author's collection)  Byzantine weight, 6 Uncia 44mm (161.70g) (Author's collection) 
8th-11th cent. A.D. Byzantine Reliquary cross depicting apostles, names inscribed in Greek (Author's collection)
8th-11th cent. A.D. Byzantine Reliquary cross depicting Christ on cross, name and title inscribed in Greek (Author's collection)
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Bar Kochba and Jewish War Types
JUDAEA, Jewish War (AD 66-70). AR shekel (23mm, 14.08 gm, 12h). Jerusalem, Dated Year 2 (April AD 67-March AD 68). Shekel of Israel (Paleo-Hebrew), ritual chalice with pearled rim, on two raised projections; Year Two above / Jerusalem the Holy (Paleo-Hebrew), staff with three pomegranate buds and globular base. GBC 6, 6387 (Author's collection)
JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt AR Sela (14.18 g), 132-135 CE Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 CE) Obv: 'Simon' (Paleo-Hebrew), tetrastyle façade of the Temple of Jerusalem; show bread table or Ark of the Covenant in chest form with semicircular lid and short legs, seen from a narrow side; above façade, star. Rev: 'For the freedom of Jerusalem' (Paleo-Hebrew), lulav with etrog at left. Ref: Hendin 1411; Mildenberg 87 (O12/R67; this coin #22); TJC 267. ex Mel Wacks Collection; Ex Hess-Leu 31 (7 December 1966), 541; NY Sale lot 96 (Author's collection)
JUDAEA. Bar Kokhba Revolt (AD 132-135 AD). AE small bronze (20mm, 8.04 gm, 5h). Dated Year 1 (AD 132/3). Paleo-Hebrew year one of the redemption of Israel, bunch of grapes with branch and small leaf / Eleazar the priest retrograde across fields; seven-branched palm tree with two bunches of dates. Mildenberg 327, 147 (same dies). Hendin 1380a. TJC 225. AJC II 266, 8. Ex Shoshana Collection (Heritage 3003, 8 March 2012), lot 20244 (Author's collection)
JUDAEA, Caesarea Maritima.
Domitian ca. 92 A.D.
28mm, 15.72g, 1h
Obv: Rad. bust of emp. r.
IMP CAES DOMIT AVG
GERM P M TR P X I
Rev: Palm tree w/seven branches
IMP XXI COS XVI CENS P P P
Leu 32, lot 1311 (Author's collection)
Holy Land Artifacts
 Holy Land terracotta oil lamp ca. 1200-560 B.C. Adler 9-12 (325g 14.9 x 15.2 cm in diameter, 6.8 cm tall) (Author's collection)  Phoenician weight ca. 4th-3rd cent BC. Bust of Astarte, 11mm 5.59gm (1 Beqa or half shekel) (Author's collection)  Roman iron fish hook. ca. 1st-3rd century AD. Length 84mm 
8th-11th cent. A.D. Byzantine Reliquary cross depicting apostles, names inscribed in Greek
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