
IMP CC MES Q TRA DECIVS AVG (or similar)Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COL PR F AVG F C CAES METROP (or similar), two eagles standing outward, heads facing one another; vexillum between. 28mm, 18.23 grams. Caesarea Maritima RPC IX online 2039; Kadman, Caesarea 157; Rosenberger 130; Sofaer 128; SNG ANS 828.
Very rare provincial sestertius.
Caesarea, also Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea Palaestinae or Caesarea Stratonis, was an ancient and medieval port city on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean, and later a small fishing village. It was the capital of Roman Judaea, Syria Palaestina and Palaestina Prima, successively, for a period of c. 650 years and a major intellectual hub of the Mediterranean. Today, the site is part of the Caesarea National Park, on the western edge of the Sharon plain in Israel.
Ex-CNG (with their old ticket).