RPC III, 841

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 841
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
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 ΤΕΙΜΑΙ ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ, ΜΗ
Edition τειμᾷ βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου μηʹ
Translation the honours of King Sauromates, 48
Reverse design curule chair upon which wreath; shield at left, sceptre with emperor’s head at right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 12.97 g
Reference Frolova Coinage, pp. 118–119. 3; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 249–50. 3; Anokhin 428
Specimens 5 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –4     See Frolova Coinage, pp. 118–119 and pl. IX, 22, 28; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 249–50 and pl. XLIII, 11–12
5 5     ✸ CNG EA 233, 26 May 2010, lot 200