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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/492A json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | II |
Number | 492A |
Province | Northern Black Sea |
Region | Sarmatia |
City | Olbia |
Reign | Pharzoios |
Person (obv.) | Pharzoios (king) |
Obverse inscription | |
Obverse design | diademed head of Pharzoius, right |
Reverse inscription | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΦΑΡΖΟΙΟΥ ΟΛ |
Edition | βασιλέως Φαρζοιου Ὀλ(βία) |
Translation | of King Pharzoios, Olbia |
Reverse design | eagle with spread wings on tamga, right; in right field, Σ over monogram |
Metal | gold |
Average diameter | 18 mm |
Average weight | 8.28 g |
Axis | 12 |
Reference | Zograph pl. XXXIII,24 |
Specimens | 1 (0 in the core collections) |
Note | Pharzoius' coinage was omitted in RPC I (p. 335) because the dating of this king is unsure, but Zograph (pp. 211–14) has suggested that he ruled in Flavian times. |
Addition | Additional coin-type (post publication) |