RPC I, 1898

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 1898
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Aspurgos
Person (obv.) Uncertain
Issue Year ΑΛΤ = 331
Dating AD 34
Obverse inscription
Obverse design bare head (of Augustus? or Tiberius?), right
Reverse inscription ΒΑΡ ΑΛΤ
Edition β(ασιλέως) Ἀ(σπoύ)ρ(γου) αλτʹ
Translation of King Aspurgos, 331
Reverse design male head, right;
Metal gold
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.95 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference N.A. Frolova, Vestnik Drevnei Istorii I(Moscow, 1979), pp. 139–47
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 4
2 2     ✸ CNG Triton XXIII, 14 Jan. 2020, lot 288
3 3     Artezian, Crimea: see 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, p. 22 fig. 4; pp. 28–9 for other specimens (a total of 11, including this one)
4 4     NY: 1944.100.40995