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Cistophorus with head of Domitian

Roman Provincial
Imperial Period
about A.D. 95
Mint: Asia: Ionia, Ephesus (?)

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions Diameter: 27 mm. Weight: 9.98 gm. Die Axis: 6
Credit Line Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number60.523
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Roman Medallions (MFA, 1962, 1975), no. 015.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Domitian, laureate, left.
IMPCAES DOMITIANVS
Reverse: Bundle of six corn ears.
AVG GERM P (below)

ProvenanceBy 1960: with Bank Leu & Co. AG, Bahnhofstrasse 32, Zurich, Switzerland and Adolph Hess AG, Haldenstrasse 5, Lucerne, Switzerland (Hess-Leu auction, Hotel Schweizerhof, Lucerne, April 7, 1960, lot 314); purchased at Hess-Leu auction, April 7, 1960 on behalf of MFA by Spink & Son, Ltd., 5, 6 & 7 King Street, St. James's, London, S.W. 1; May 11, 1960: purchased by MFA from Spink & Son, Ltd. for Swiss fr. 8,221 (this is the total price for 60.518-60.525)