Obverse: Head of Augustus

Reverse: Inscribed altar

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Context: Colonia Patricia?
Material: Silver
Denomination: Denarius
Issuing Authority: Augustus
Actual Weight: 2.18 g.
Date: exact 19 BC - exact 15 BC
Dimensions: 22 mm.
Region: Spain
Period: Augustan

Obverse Type: Inscribed altar

Donor: The Catharine Page Perkins Fund

Commentary: Imperial denarius

Sources Used: BMCRE I, 64, No. 359; Perkins Collection 1902, 100; Cohen 1880-1892, Octave Auguste no. 102; G. A. Mooney, The Numismatist, March 1969, 303, ill. (article on play money made from coins, including this example)