RPC II, 475

 

Image of specimen #6

 

Coin type
Volume II
Number 475
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Rhescuporis II
Person (obv.) Rhescuporis II (king)
Issue Bronze: second series: second group
Dating AD 80/90 (?)
Obverse inscription ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟϹ ΙΟΥΛΙΟϹ ΒΑϹΙΛΕΥϹ ΡΗϹΚΟΥΠΟΡΙϹ
Edition Τιβέριος Ἰούλιος βασιλεὺς Ῥησκούπορις Τιβέριος Ἰούλιος βασιλεὺς Ῥησκούπορις
Translation Tiberius Julius King Rhescuporis
Obverse design king Rhescuporis II standing, right, left foot on prisoner kneeling; on right, trophy; on left, another kneeling prisoner, hands tied behind his back
Reverse inscription ΜΗ
Edition μηʹ μηʹ
Translation 48
Reverse design wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 16.55 g
Axis 12
Reference Frolova p. 101, Anokhin 379
Specimens 6 (3 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     Cop SNG 34
2 2     L BMC 11
3 3     L BMC 12
4 4 –5     see Frolova p. 101 and pl. III, 25–6
6 6     ✸ CNG 105, 10 May 2017, lot 132