Nerva and then Trajan maintain the *fiscus judaicus*, the tax of two drachmas paid to the Capitol since 70 as punishment for the revolt

The *fiscus judaicus*, instituted after the destruction of the Temple, transferred to the Capitoline the annual offering that each adult Jew had previously paid to Jerusalem. The tax now fell upon women, children, and the elderly, and its declared purpose was to humiliate as much as to generate revenue.

Under Domitian, its collection had given rise to public bodily inspections and to denunciations of uncircumcised sympathizers. Nerva had coins struck proclaiming the end of slanderous accusations, but neither he nor Trajan abolished the tax itself, which outlived the pagan Roman Empire: a war tax had become a status.