RPC III, 839

 

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 839
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, fourth group
Dating AD 98/102
Obverse inscription ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟϹ ΙΟΥΛΙΟϹ ΒΑϹΙΛΕΥϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΗϹ
Edition Τιβέριος Ἰούλιος βασιλεὺς Σαυρομάτης
Translation Tiberius Julius King Sauromates
Obverse design King Sauromates seated, right, on curule chair, holding sceptre with king’s head at top
Reverse inscription Μ-Η
Edition μηʹ
Translation 48
Reverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 118. 1; Frolova Monetnoe p. 249. 1; Anokhin 423
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)
Note Average weight of 839-845: 12.16 g (25)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –3     See Frolova Coinage, p. 118 and pl. IX, 14–15; Frolova Monetnoe p. 249 and pl. XLIII, 2–3