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