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As - Antoninus Pius Aelia Capitolina
| Issuer | Aelia Capitolina |
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| Year | 138-161 |
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| Weight | 7.25 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of Faustina I facing right, her hair elaborately arranged with braids coiled and piled atop the head in the fashionable Antonine court style. The empress is depicted with characteristic regal bearing, the drapery rendered in flowing folds over her shoulder. The surrounding Latin legend identifies her as Augusta. |
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Aelia Capitolina was Hadrian's refoundation of Jerusalem, established around 130 AD on the ruins of the city destroyed by Titus in 70 AD. The decision to build a Roman colony on the site — and to ban Jews from entering on pain of death — is widely cited as a direct trigger of the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–135 AD. The city's coinage began only after that revolt was crushed, continuing under successive emperors including Antoninus Pius.
RPC IV.3 6406 places this issue firmly within the Antonine phase of the colony's mint, which produced a relatively modest civic bronze series.