Obverse: Laureate bust of Septimius Severus
Reverse: Tyche of Antioch, draped, with turreted crown, seated on Mount Or...
| Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Context: | Antioch |
| Material: | Silver |
| Denomination: | Tetradrachm |
| Issuing Authority: | Septimius Severus |
| Actual Weight: | 12.47 g. |
| Die Axis: | 12 |
| Date: | exact 202 AD - exact 207 AD |
| Dimensions: | 28 mm. |
| Region: | Syria |
| Period: | Severan |
Obverse Type: Within a dotted circle sits the draped figure of the Tyche (Fortune) of Antioch, profile to the right on Mount Oropos (pile of rocks). She wears a turreted (mural) crown and holds ears of corn with a poppy, in her outstretched right hand. At her feet swims the river god, Orontes, in 3/4-view to the right, although he looks back to the left.
Donor: Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Zoë Wilbour
Commentary: Imperial tetradrachm
Sources Used: A. Bellinger, Syrian Tetradrachms of Caracalla and Macrinus (New York 1940) 21, no. 1, variable reverse legend