RPC III, 833

 

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 833
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Issue Bronze: second series, second group
Dating AD 98/102
Obverse inscription ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΒΑϹΙΛΕΩϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ
Obverse design curule chair; above, wreath; shield with spear and sceptre with king’s head at top on left and right
Reverse inscription ΜΗ
Reverse design diademed and draped bust of Sauromates I, right facing bust of queen, left
Metal copper-based alloy
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 116. 6; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 246–7. 6; Anokhin 434
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –2     See Frolova Coinage, p. 116 and pl. IX, 1; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 246–7 and pl. XLII, 13