RPC III, 845

 

Image of specimen #3

 

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
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 Nike walking left, holding wreath and palm
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 13.60 g
Reference Frolova Coinage, pp. 119–120. 7; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 250–1. 7; Anokhin —
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)

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)