RPC I, 1885

 

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 1885
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Aspurgos
Person (obv.) Uncertain
Issue Year ϚΙΤ = 316
Dating AD 19
Obverse inscription
Obverse design bare head (of Augustus? or Tiberius?), right
Reverse inscription ΒΑΡ ϚΙΤ
Edition β(ασιλέως) Ἀ(σπoύ)ρ(γου) ϛιτʹ
Translation of King Aspurgos, 316
Reverse design male head, right;
Metal gold
Average diameter 18 mm
Average weight 7.90 g
Reference N.A. Frolova, Vestnik Drevnei Istorii I(Moscow, 1979), pp. 139–47
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Artezian, Crimea: Mikhail Abramzon, ‘Gold Staters of Aspurgus and MithridatesIII and New Complexes with Coins and Jewellery Items from the ArtezianSettlement’, Ancient Civilizations fromScythia to Siberia 23 (2017), pp. 1–41, at 25, fig. 2; see pp. 27–8 for other specimens (a total of three, including this one).