Reverse: Seated Roma

Obverse: Head of Hadrian

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Uncertain
Material: Silver
Denomination: Tetradrachm
Issuing Authority: Hadrian
Actual Weight: 10.57 g.
Date: ca. 128 AD - ca. 132 AD
Dimensions: 31 mm.
Region: Uncertain, Eastern
Period: Hadrianic


Obverse Type: Helmeted Roma, draped. She is seated, facing left, on a cuirass and a shield, holding a Victory in her extended right hand and a vertical spear in her left.

Donor: In memory of Zoƫ Wilbour

Commentary: Imperial cistophoric tetradrachm

Sources Used: BMCRE III, 390, 1076; pl. 73, 11