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Coin Catalog Number: Boston 00.291

Collection:	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Material:	Gold
Denomination:	Aureus
Mint:	Rome	Region:	Latium
Date:	exact A.D. 112 - A.D. 117	Period:	Trajanic
Issuing Authority:	Trajan
Actual Weight:	7.227 g.	Die Axis:
Diameter:	20 mm.

Obverse Type:

Bust of laureate Trajan, draped, wearing a cuirass, and facing right

Obverse Legend:

IMP CAES NER TRAIAN OPTIM AVG GERM DAC (around)

Reverse Type:

Bust of radiate Sol (Sun), draped, facing right

Reverse Legend:

PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R (around)

Commentary:

Imperial aureus

Sources Used:

BMCRE III, 121, nos. 621-632; pl. 20.12; Perkins Collection 1902, 101, 20; Cohen 1880-1892, 2, Trajan no. 187

(Alan E. Kaiser)

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Archive Number Caption

1997.03.0523 Obverse: Laureate bust of Trajan

1997.03.0524 Reverse: Radiate head of Sol

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