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Summary

Description

Vespasian and Judaea Capta coin. Exact pair of engraved coin illustrations corresponding to H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 9, page 100, item 1. The laurelled head and abbreviated Vespasian inscription at the left, with the palm tree, seated figure, shields and IVDAEA CAPTA legend at the right. Both complete circular borders are retained. The matching profiles, contours, lettering and interior details establish the same matrix.

The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, volume 63, November 1876, printed p. 363, article Portraits and History in Coins, pp. 361–364. The article is signed Robert Morris, LL.D., on p. 364; this prose byline is not an established engraver credit. The November date is printed in the running head on p. 364, and the year on the illustrated pages. There is no individual printed caption under these diagrams. The exact printing is confirmed; no claim is made about the first appearance or the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Source

International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (IAPSOP), combined 1876 volumes 62–63.

• Complete source PDF.
• Periodical index.

Thank you to IAPSOP for preserving this volume and freely providing the digital copy.

File and processing

Grayscale PNG, 440 × 220 pixels. Original embedded JPEG 2000 image from one-based PDF page 861: 950 × 1549 pixels, 114226 bytes, SHA-256 1af373db41b644545eb1349f65b0d7ac0ad0a536a637b82f692da56626bed9b5. Full PDF SHA-256 0254023aa61ee347b354dd694294b48e4af11799cbf841523aed1d2cdbd0b9c7.

Native crop (402, 680)–(842, 900); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. Complete coin outlines and lettering retained; adjacent prose excluded. Both diagrams are already aligned; no rotation or resampling. No enlargement, colourization, tonal adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. This is a grayscale source witness, not a natural-paper-colour scan or a resolution upgrade over the album. The original PDF and embedded JP2 remain unchanged; PNG compression is lossless.

Rights

Historical illustration published in the United States in 1876, with copyright expired in the United States. IAPSOP states that its digital materials are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International; see About IAPSOP. Attribution: IAPSOP. Changes: extraction and cropping.