Boston 1997.93 (Coin)
- ID:
- aa_954
- Type:
- Coin
- Date:
- exact 64 — exact 68
- Period:
- Julio-Claudian
- Context:
- Lugdunum?
- Region:
- Gaul?
- Dimensions:
- 36.5 mm.
- Material:
- Bronze
- Denomination:
- Sestertius
- Actual Weight:
- 26.94 g.
- Die Axis:
- 6
- Obverse Type:
- Bust of Nero, laureate, facing right, with aegis. Globe below
- Obverse Legend:
- NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P
- Reverse Type:
- At left Annona (personification of the yearly harvest), standing, cradling a cornucopia in her left hand, with her outer robe falling from her body, and her right hand on her hip. She faces a seated Ceres, with her feet on a low stool, holding a torch in her left hand and corn ears in her right hand. Between them, modius on garlanded altar. Behind them is the stern of ship.
- Reverse Legend:
- ANNONA AVGVSTI CERES; S C (in exergue)
- Issuing Authority:
- Roman Senate
Notes
Cf.BMCREI, nos. 127 f.
- Collection:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Donor:
- Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Zo Wilbour
