Reverse: Annona crowned

Obverse: Laureate bust of Trajan

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Rome
Material: Bronze
Denomination: Sestertius
Issuing Authority: Roman Senate
Actual Weight: 26.600 g.
Date: exact 104 AD - exact 111 AD
Dimensions: 36 mm.
Region: Latium
Period: Trajanic


Obverse Type: Ceres crowned and standing 3/4 to the front facing left is holding ears of grain in her right hand and a torch in her left. At her feet is the modius.

Donor: The Catharine Page Perkins Fund

Commentary: Imperial sestertius

Sources Used: BMCRE III, 163, no. 771; Perkins Collection 1902, 101, 22; Cohen 1880-1892, 2, Trajan no. 367