Obverse: Head of Sabina

Reverse: Concordia seated

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Rome
Material: Bronze
Denomination: Sestertius
Issuing Authority: Hadrian
Actual Weight: 26.93 g.
Die Axis: 12
Date: ca. 128 AD - ca. 137 AD
Dimensions: 33 mm.
Region: Latium
Period: Hadrianic


Obverse Type: Concordia (goddess of harmony) enthroned faces left. She holds a patera (knobbed, sacrificial plate) in her right hand, she rests her left arm on a statuette of Spes (hope).

Donor: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III in the name of Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule

Commentary: Imperial sestertius

Sources Used: BMCRE III, 536, no. 1867 (with wreath on corn ears; see clxxxiv for date)