RPC III, 843

 

Image of specimen #6

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 843
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 ΜΗ
Edition μηʹ
Translation 48
Reverse design wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 13.26 g
Axis 12
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 119. 5; Frolova Monetnoe p. 250. 5; Anokhin 425
Specimens 6 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –5     See Frolova Coinage, p. 119 and pl. IX, 26; Frolova Monetnoe p. 250 and pl. XLIII, 16
6 6     ✸ Boston: 64.2165