RPC III, 825

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 825
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Issue Bronze: first series, second 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 (in exergue)
Edition μηʹ
Translation 48
Reverse design city wall with gate flanked by two towers; at left, prisoner kneeling with hands tied in back
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 14.36 g
Axis 12
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 113. 7; Frolova Monetnoe p. 243. 7; Anokhin 416
Specimens 13 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –10     See Frolova Coinage, p. 113 and pl. VIII, 3–6; Frolova Monetnoe p. 243 and pl. XLI, 2–5
11 11     CNG MBS 84, 5 May 2010, lot 587
12 12     Roma Numismatics XIX, 26 Mar. 2020, lot 131 = SNG Stancomb 980 (ex Christie, Manson and Woods, 18 June 1979, lot 78)
13 13     ✸ R. Hoppensteadt coll.