RPC III, 821

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 821
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 Τι(βερίου) Ἰουλίου βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου
Translation of Tiberius Julius King Sauromates
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Sauromates I, right
Reverse inscription ΜΗ
Edition μηʹ
Translation 48
Reverse design wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 12.42 g
Axis 12
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 111. 2; Frolova Monetnoe p. 242. 2; Anokhin 418
Specimens 13 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –11     See Frolova Coinage, pp. 111–112 and pl. VII, 21–22; Frolova Monetnoe p. 242 and pl. XL, 8–9
12 12     ✸ Roma Numismatics EA 66, 9 Jan. 2020, lot 146 = Stancomb SNG 978
13 13     CGT coll.