RPC III, 832

 

Image of specimen #40

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 832
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Issue Bronze: second series, second group
Dating AD 98/102
Obverse inscription Τ(Ι)(ΒΕΡΙΟΥ) ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΒΑϹΙΛΕΩϹ (or ΒΑϹΟΛΕΟϹ) ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ
Obverse design curule chair; above, wreath; shield with spear and sceptre with king’s head at top on left and right
Reverse inscription ΜΗ
Reverse design wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Axis 11
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 115. 5, p. 116. 8; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 245–6. 5, p. 247. 8; Anokhin 437
Specimens 41 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –39     See Frolova Coinage, p. 115 and pl. VIII, 17–28, p. 116 and pl. IX, 4–6; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 245–6 and pl. XLII, 1–12, p. 247 and pl. XLII, 17–19
40 40     ✸ CNG EA 299, 27 Mar. 2013, lot 97
41 41     Münster: 1345