RPC I, 1887

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 1887
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Aspurgos
Person (obv.) Uncertain
Issue Year ΗΙΤ = 318
Dating AD 21
Obverse inscription
Obverse design bare head (of Augustus? or Tiberius?), right
Reverse inscription ΒΑΡ ΗΙΤ
Edition β(ασιλέως) Ἀ(σπoύ)ρ(γου) ηιτʹ
Translation of King Aspurgos, 318
Reverse design male head, right;
Metal gold
Average diameter 43 mm
Average weight 7.96 g
Reference N.A. Frolova, Vestnik Drevnei Istorii I(Moscow, 1979), pp. 139–47
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Leu 83, 6 May 2002, lot 714 (ex Schlessinger, Feb. 1934, lot 200; MM XV, 1-2 July 1955, lot 715; Triton I, 2 Dec. 1997, lot 675)