[TheAngryClam]

It's gone.

Examination of the post-holes used to hang bronze letters on the Coliseum indicate that Vespasian and Titus built the structure using loot from the supression of the Jewish revolt.

They melted it down and made it into money, odds are.

[redhead]

"They melted it down and made it into money, odds are."

This was the first idea that crossed my mind, also. They would probably have done this for several reasons, over and above the need for more coinage. Mainly, I believe they wanted to teach the Jews a "lesson."

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**They melted it down and made it into money, odds are.***

I read somewhere it was broken up and thrown in the Tiber River, however I believe Eusebius mentioned it being displayed years later somewhere.

[eddiespaghetti]

They melted it down and made it into money, odds are.

I'd heard that the menorath from the temple had been taken away by the Vandals when they sacked Rome in 410 AD.