RPC III, 796

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 796
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 ΑY (401)
Dating AD 104/5
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ
Edition Βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου
Translation of King Sauromates
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Sauromates I, right
Reverse inscription ΑΥ
Edition αυʹ
Translation 401
Reverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Metal gold
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.89 g
Reference Anokhin 395
Specimens 7 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –6     Frolova Coinage, p. 105 and pl. V, 12–17; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 235–6 and pl. XXXVI, 18–23
7 7     ✸ CNG 93, 22 May 2013, lot 761