Reverse: Spes walking with flower

Obverse: Bust of Lucius Aelius

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Rome
Material: Bronze
Denomination: Sestertius
Issuing Authority: Roman Senate
Actual Weight: 26.13 g.
Die Axis: 5
Date: exact 137 AD
Dimensions: 32.5 mm.
Region: Latium
Period: Hadrianic


Obverse Type: Within a dotted circle, the figure of Spes (the personification of Hope), walking to the left, holding a flower in her right hand and her skirt in her left

Donor: Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Zoƫ Wilbour

Commentary: Imperial sestertius

Sources Used: BMCRE III, 543, no. 1914