RPC III, 787

 

Image of specimen #3

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 787
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Issue Year ΡΤ (390)
Dating AD 93/4
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ
Edition Βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου
Translation of King Sauromates
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Sauromates I, right
Reverse inscription ΡΤ
Edition ρτʹ
Translation 390
Reverse design laureate head of Domitian, right
Metal gold
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.77 g
Reference Anokhin 387
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     St Petersburg Frolova Coinage p. 103 and pl. IV, 20; Frolova Monetnoe p. 233 and pl. XXXVI, 1
2 2     C. Preda and E. Petac, Les monnaies d'or de la Bibliothèque de l'Académie Roumaine. I. Monnaies grecques et romaines, Moneta 56 (Wetteren, 2006), 162 corr.
3 3     ✸ Gorny & Mosch 146, 6 Mar. 2006, lot 308