Nerva FISCI IVDAICI CALVMNIA SVBLATA from Rome…ex-Kellogg

[Victor]

This is a coin that I sold; but thought it was fairly interesting




Nerva
A.D. 96- 98
Ӕ Sestertius
34x35mm     25.2g
IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P [COS II? P P]; laureate and draped bust right.
FISCI IVDAICI CALVMNIA SVBLATA; palm tree; S C across field.
RIC II Rome 72/82; Hendin 6634

 

 

After the victory of Vespasian over Judaea, he levied a tax called the fiscus Iudaicus. It was strictly enforced until Nerva relaxed the burden and did away with some of the harsher rules, but did not actually stop the tax; rather only those that professed to be Jewish were taxed.



Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943) was the founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and inventor of the Corn Flake.

 

came with a pillbox from the sanitarium