Obverse: Laureate bust of Trajan

Reverse: Felicitas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Rome
Material: Silver
Denomination: Denarius
Issuing Authority: Trajan
Actual Weight: 2.9 g.
Die Axis: 6
Date: ca. 106 AD
Dimensions: 19 mm.
Region: Latium
Period: Trajanic


Obverse Type: Felicitas (personified happiness), draped, stands in 3/4-view to the left. She holds a caduceus in her right hand and rests her left arm on a column.

Commentary: Imperial denarius

Sources Used: BMCRE III, 73, no. 305, pl. 14, 11