Reverse: Distyle temple

Obverse: Laureate head of Trajan

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Uncertain, (Ephesus?)
Material: Silver
Denomination: Tetradrachm
Issuing Authority: Trajan
Actual Weight: 10.26 g.
Die Axis: 5
Date: exact 98 AD - exact 117 AD
Dimensions: 29 mm.
Region: Asia
Period: Trajanic


Obverse Type: Distyle temple in which Tyche (Fortune) crowns emperor Trajan, in military costume

Donor: In memory of Zoƫ Wilbour

Commentary: Imperial cistophoric tetradrachm

Sources Used: BMCRE III, 146-7, no. 711; Milkovich 1961, no. 47