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CANISTRUM----a basket, which, filled with flowers, was consecrated to the pagan deities, with religious rites. Hence on a gold coin of Antoninus Pius, with legend TR. POT. II. COS. II. a female figure (Piety) holding corn ears in her right hand, and in her left the canistrum, filled with flowers.----Engraved in Caylus, Numis. Aurea Impp. Rom. No. 531.
The canistrum generally appears on imperial coins bearing the legend and type of Annona.