Bidspirit auction | Trajan 98-117 AD. Cappadocia, Caesareia-Eusebia.
Trajan 98-117 AD. Cappadocia, Caesareia-Eusebia. Civic Issue Bronze (Æ) coin. Weight 2.01 gram, Size 12 mm. - Descriptions of the type : Turreted bust of Tyche right. / Pyramid. During Trajan rule the Jews rebelled against the Romans Kitos War or ”Rebellion of the diaspora” : The rebellions erupted in 115, when most of the Roman armies were fighting Trajan's Parthian War on the eastern border of the Roman Empire. Major uprisings by Jews in Cyrenaica, Cyprus and Egypt spiralled out of control, resulting in a widespread slaughter of the remaining Roman garrisons and Roman citizens by Jewish rebels.