Reverse: Concordia seated

Obverse: Head of Lucius Aelius

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Rome
Material: Gold
Denomination: Aureus
Issuing Authority: Hadrian
Actual Weight: 7.05 g.
Date: exact 137 AD
Dimensions: 19 mm.
Region: Latium
Period: Hadrianic


Obverse Type: Draped Concordia is seated facing left on her throne. She is holding a patera (a sacrificial, knobbed plate) in her extended right hand and is resting her left on a cornucopia.

Donor: In memory of Zoƫ Wilbour

Commentary: Imperial aureus

Sources Used: BMCRE III, 367, no. 997