Reverse: Standing figure of Spes

Obverse: Laureate head of Titus

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Rome
Material: Bronze
Denomination: Sestertius
Issuing Authority: Roman Senate
Actual Weight: 29.17 g.
Date: exact 80 AD - exact 81 AD
Dimensions: 36.1 mm.
Region: Latium
Period: Flavian


Obverse Type: Within a dotted circle, the figure of the Spes (the personification of hope), draped, advancing to the left. She holds a flower in her right hand and lifts her skirt with her left.

Donor: Anonymous Gift in Memory of Zoƫ Wilbour

Commentary: Imperial sestertius

Sources Used: BMCRE II, 260, 186; pl. 49, 5