Province Northern Black Sea
City Kingdom of the Bosporus 
Region Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Obverse inscription ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟϹ ΙΟΥΛΙΟϹ ΒΑϹΙΛΕΥϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΗϹ
Obverse design King Sauromates seated, right, on curule chair, holding sceptre with king’s head at top
Reverse inscription ΤΕΙΜΑΙ ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ, ΜΗ
Reverse design curule chair upon which wreath; shield at left, sceptre with emperor’s head at right

Coin no. 1 of RPC III, 841

 

Reference See Frolova Coinage, pp. 118–119 and pl. IX, 22, 28; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 249–50 and pl. XLIII, 11–12
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