Reverse: Amalthea standing

Obverse: Head of Hadrian

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Synnada
Material: Silver
Denomination: Tetradrachm
Issuing Authority: Hadrian
Actual Weight: 10.24 g.
Die Axis: 6
Date: exact 117 AD - exact 138 AD
Dimensions: 29 mm.
Period: Hadrianic


Obverse Type: Amalthea standing within a dotted circle with her head turned to the right wearing a mural crown. She holds infant Jupiter in her left arm, and a scepter in her right hand. At right stands a goat with his head turned up toward Jupiter.

Donor: Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Zoƫ Wilbour

Commentary: Imperial cistophoric tetradrachm