RPC III, 828

 

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 828
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Person (rev.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Bronze: second series, second group
Dating AD 98/102
Obverse inscription ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΒΑϹΙΛΕΩϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ
Nominative Caesar Augustus Germanicus Nerva Traianus
Obverse design curule chair; above, wreath; shield with spear and sceptre with king’s head at top on left and right
Reverse inscription ΚΑΙϹΑΡΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟΥ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟΥ ΝΕΡΟΥΑ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΥ, Μ-Η
Reverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 114. 1; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 244–5. 1; Anokhin 431
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note Average weight of 828-834: 10.82 g (55)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     See Frolova Coinage, p. 114 and pl. VIII, 10; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 244–5 and pl. XLI, 10