Reverse: Vesta seated

Obverse: Draped head of Sabina

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Rome
Material: Bronze
Denomination: Dupondius
Issuing Authority: Hadrian
Actual Weight: 12.95gms.
Die Axis: 6
Date: ca. 128 AD - ca. 132 AD
Dimensions: 28 mm.
Region: Latium
Period: Hadrianic


Obverse Type: Draped Vesta (goddess of the hearth), sits facing to the left on a low seat holding a palladium in her right hand and a scepter in her left.

Donor: Gift of Malcolm Storer

Commentary: Imperial dupondius

Sources Used: BMCRE III, 540, no. 1902, pl. 99.9 (not 99.10), for date, see cl; Morgan 1975, 64