Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman
A Roman silver denarius of Vespasian shown front and back: the obverse has his laureate head and titles, the reverse a trophy of captured arms beside a seated, mourning woman over the word IVDAEA (Judaea). It belongs to the Judaea Capta coinage that announced the Flavian victory in the Jewish revolt.
- Date
- 0070
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Roman imperial mint at Rome, under Emperor Vespasian
- Country
- Roman Empire
- Medium
- Banknotes and coins
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roman Principate
- Leader
- Vespasian
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (photograph by Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 (Commons file page; photograph by CNG; coin about 1,950 years old)
Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. (cngcoins.com), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
Obverse (clockwise from lower left): IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG Reverse (in exergue): IVDAEA
Obverse: Imperator Caesar Vespasian Augustus. Reverse: Judaea.
The obverse legend runs round the edge of the coin with CAESAR and VESPASIANVS run together as struck; the translation expands standard abbreviations.
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