RPC III, 830

 

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 830
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
Edition Τιβερίου Ἰουλίου βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου
Translation of Tiberius Julius King Sauromates
Obverse design curule chair; above, wreath; shield with spear and sceptre with king’s head at top on left and right
Reverse inscription Μ-Η
Edition μηʹ
Translation 48
Reverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 114. 3; Frolova Monetnoe p. 245. 3; Anokhin 432
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –2     See Frolova Coinage, p. 114 and pl. VIII, 12–13; Frolova Monetnoe p. 245 and pl. XLI, 12–13