RPC III, 795

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 795
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Person (rev.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Year Y (400)
Dating AD 103/4
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ
Edition Βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου Βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου
Translation of King Sauromates
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Sauromates I, right
Reverse inscription Υ
Edition υʹ υʹ
Translation (year) 400
Reverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Metal gold
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 7.78 g
Axis 12
Reference Anokhin 394,  Anokhin (2011),1500; Anokhin (1986), 394; MacDonald 375/1
Specimens 7 (0 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1 –5     Frolova Coinage, p. 105 and pl. V, 9–11; Frolova Monetnoe p. 235 and pl. XXXVI, 14–17
6 6     Antykwariat Michal Niemczyk 38, 18 March 2023, lot 2775
7 7     ✸ Nomos 35, 15 June 2025, lot 680