Reverse: Draped Arabia with camel

Obverse: Laureate bust of Trajan

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Rome
Material: Bronze
Denomination: Sestertius
Issuing Authority: Roman Senate
Actual Weight: 27.94 g.
Die Axis: 6
Date: exact 104 AD - exact 111 AD
Dimensions: 33 mm.
Region: Latium
Period: Trajanic


Obverse Type: Arabia, draped, stands facing front. She holds a branch over a camel on the left by her side, and a bundle of canes over her left arm.

Donor: Gift of Malcolm Storer

Commentary: Imperial sestertius

Sources Used: BMCRE III, 185, no. 877, cf. for rev. type pl. 38, 6 and 7.