RPC III, 820

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 820
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Issue Bronze: first series, first group
Dating AD 93/6
Obverse inscription ΤΙ ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ
Edition Τιβερίου Ἰουλίου βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου Τι(βερίου) Ἰουλίου βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου
Translation of Tiberius Julius King Sauromates
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Sauromates I, right
Reverse inscription Μ-Η
Edition μηʹ μηʹ
Translation 48
Reverse design Nike walking left, holding wreath and palm
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 13.81 g
Axis 12
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 111. 2; Frolova Monetnoe p. 242. 2; Anokhin 418
Specimens 4 (0 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1 –2     Frolova Coinage, p. 111 and pl. VII, 20; Frolova Monetnoe p. 241 and pl. XL, 7
3 3     ✸ CNG MBS 66, 19 May 2004, lot 1027
4 4     CGT coll., ex VCoins Gert Boersema ex Friedrich Popken coll., Fritz Rudolf Künker 133, 11 Oct. 2007, lot 7422