RPC III, 845

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 845
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
Obverse design King Sauromates seated, right, on curule chair, holding sceptre with king’s head at top
Reverse inscription Μ-Η
Reverse design Nike walking left, holding wreath and palm
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Reference Frolova Coinage, pp. 119–120. 7; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 250–1. 7; Anokhin —
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –2     See Frolova Coinage, p. 120 and pl. X, 1; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 250–1 and pl. XLIII, 18
3 3     ✸ Künker 333, 16 Mar. 2020, lot 10 (ex Giessener Münzhandlung 102, 2000, lot 380; Grün 53, 2010, lot 87)