Obverse: Laureate head of Hadrian

Reverse: Two draped women

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Smyrna
Material: Silver
Denomination: Tetradrachm
Issuing Authority: Hadrian
Actual Weight: 10.28 g.
Date: exact 117 AD - exact 138 AD
Dimensions: 28 mm.
Region: Ionia
Period: Hadrianic


Obverse Type: Two draped women facing each other; the left figure holds an uncertain object (a ladder or bridle?), the right figure holds a scepter.

Donor: In memory of Zoƫ Wilbour

Commentary: Imperial cistophoric tetradrachm

Sources Used: BMCRE III, 389, no. 1074; pl. 73, 9