Denarius - Titus Judaea

Struck under Titus's authority during the Jewish War's immediate aftermath, this denarius belongs to the "Judaea Capta" commemorative series issued following the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD and the sack of the Second Temple. The campaign yielded enough plundered treasure — Josephus estimated it transformed Roman gold markets — to fund the Colosseum's construction, begun under Vespasian in 72 AD.

RIC II.1 1562 is a Caesarean issue, struck while Titus held tribunician power but before his sole reign, making the precise attribution to eastern versus Roman mints a point of ongoing scholarly debate reflected in the dual RIC/RPC citations.