Denarius (Coin) Portraying Empress Faustina

Art Institute of Chicago

Denarius (Coin) Portraying Empress Faustina

Roman, minted in Rome

Date
after 141
Medium
Silver
Culture
Roman Empire
Department
Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the head of Empress Faustina, facing to the right. The back (reverse) depicts the goddess Ceres, veiled and holding a torch and grain.

The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Linked open data

Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.

Object type
AAT300037334

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.