Obverse: Head of Augustus

Reverse: Triumphal arch with quadriga

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Ephesus
Material: Silver
Denomination: Tetradrachm
Issuing Authority: Augustus
Actual Weight: 11.81 g.
Date: exact 19 BC - exact 18 BC
Dimensions: 28 mm.
Region: Ionia
Period: Augustan


Obverse Type: Triumphal arch, with inscribed entablature, surmounted by a quadriga shown in 3/4-view to the right

Donor: Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Zoƫ Wilbour

Commentary: Imperial cistophoric tetradrachm

Sources Used: BMCRE I, 114, 703, pl. 17.7; Mazzini 1957, no. 354 (for provenance)