Denarius (Coin) Portraying Emperor Alexander Pius
231-235
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 2 cm (13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Rome
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Obverse: Bust of Alexander Pius laureate to right, draped and cuirassed Reverse: Jupiter with thunderbolt and eagle marching to left, looking back
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
