RPC III, 867

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 867
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Issue Bronze: fourth series, fifth group
Dating AD 108/15
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Sauromates, right
Reverse inscription ΜΗ
Reverse design city wall with gate flanked by two towers; at right, prisoner kneeling with hands tied in back
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Axis 12
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 127. 4; Frolova Monetnoe p. 259. 4; Anokhin 461
Specimens 5 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –3     See Frolova Coinage, p. 127 and pl. XII, 16–17; Frolova Monetnoe p. 259 and pl. XLVII, 15–16
4 4     R. Becker coll.
5 5     ✸ R. Hoppensteadt coll.