Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Context: | Cyme |
Material: | Bronze |
Denomination: | Medallion |
Issuing Authority: | Valerian I |
Actual Weight: | 7.68 g. |
Die Axis: | 6 |
Date: | exact 253 AD - exact 260 AD |
Dimensions: | 30 mm. |
Region: | Aeolis |
Period: | Third Century A.C. |
Obverse Type: Within a dotted circle appears a rectangular complex ("precinct of a temple," according to
Donor: Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Zoƫ Wilbour
Commentary: Imperial bronze medallion
Sources Used: BMCSylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, vol. 21, no. 154 (no gamma);