Reverse: Wolf walking

Obverse: Head of Mars

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Rome
Material: Silver
Denomination: Denarius
Issuing Authority: Publius Satrienus
Actual Weight: 2.98 g.
Date: exact 77 BC
Dimensions: 18 mm.
Region: Latium
Period: Republican


Obverse Type: Within a dotted circle, a she-wolf walking in profile to the left

Donor: Gift of Joseph H. Clark

Commentary: Republican denarius

Sources Used: BMCRR I, 393, 3222; pl. XLII.6; Babelon 1885-1886, 2.420, 1; RRC no. 388