RPC III, 803

 

Image of specimen #9

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 803
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 ϚY (406)
Dating AD 109/10
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ
Edition Βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου
Translation of King Sauromates
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Sauromates I, right
Reverse inscription ϚΥ
Edition ϛυʹ
Translation (year) 406
Reverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Metal gold
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.77 g
Reference Anokhin 400, 400A
Specimens 9 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –6     Frolova Coinage, pp. 106–7 and pl. V, 29–33; Frolova Monetnoe p. 237 and pl. XXXVII, 11–16
7 7     V: GR 15195
8 8     CNG MBS 66, 19 May 2004, lot 1025
9 9     ✸ Gorny & Mosch 146, 6 Mar. 2006, lot 313