Obverse: Snake emerging from cista mystica, within wreath

Reverse: Staff with crescent, and caduceus with wings

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Rome
Material: Silver
Denomination: Tetradrachm
Issuing Authority: Gaius Flavius Fimbria
Actual Weight: 11.51 g.
Die Axis: 12
Date: ca. 85 BC
Dimensions: 25.5 mm.
Region: Latium
Period: Republican


Obverse Type: At left, staff with crescent; at right, caduceus with wings

Donor: Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Zoƫ Wilbour

Commentary: Republican cistophoric tetradrachm

Sources Used: Ashmolean Museum, Report of Visitors (Oxford 1959) 25-26, pl. VIII, 8, listed as "hitherto unknown"