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Finally got my hands on a lovely Judaea Capta denarius. It has younger looking portrait of Vespasian rather than the pitbull-esque they usually engraved on the dies. It also is nicely centered and has the entire „IVDAEA“ legend on the flan. The die was just a bit worn/ blocked, so some of the letters are not wholly there.
I‘m extremely happy with it and it‘s fitting nicely into my year of the four emperors.

Edit to give some historical background to this important coin:
Vespasian and his son Titus were appointed to deal with the jewish revolt in 66 AD by Emperor Nero.
For the next 3, or rather 4 years, they claimed many victories, even taking Jerusalem in 70 AD.
After Nero‘s suicide in 68 AD, Rome was plunged into a civil war over the succession. First Galba, then Otho and then Vitellius claimed the title of Emperor, but only Vespasian would hold it longer than a couple of months in 69AD.
This coin marks an important piece of propaganda issued by Vespasian as a show of strength and foreign victory, rather than just victories against other Romans. A show of force and stability while Rome desperately needed both.

To photograph the different hues of color the denarii in my collection have is pretty difficult, so I took that as a challenge for today. Head on, most of them just look like regular silver, maybe toned dark grey-ish.

I have a Redgrass lamp for painting D&D miniatures that claims to show colors as truthfully as possible (which I can agree it does) and is pretty bright. I used my phone camera with a macro lens attachment and took the pictures through the ProjectIndigo app.

While the Tiberius might be the most colorful, the almost purple-gold of the Domitian is really awesome. And the dark oranges in the Hadrian really give depth to his portrait.
I‘m not sure what was done to the Hadrian before it came to me, but it arrived as very shiny untoned silver (as you can see in my post about the 5 good emperor collection) and in the year I‘ve had it, it toned quite drastically.

Hope you enjoy the color on them.