RPC III, 851

 

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 851
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Issue Bronze: third series
Dating AD 103–4/8
Obverse inscription ΤΙ ΙΟΥΛΙΟϹ ΒΑϹΙΛΕΥϹ ϹΑΥΡΑΜΑΤΗϹ
Edition Τι(βέριος) Ἰούλιος βασιλεὺς Σαυραμάτης
Translation King Tiberius Julius Sauromates
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Sauromates, right
Reverse inscription ΜΗ
Edition μηʹ
Translation 48
Reverse design wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 121. 1; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 252–3. 1; Anokhin 443
Specimens 26 (0 in the core collections)
Note Average weight of 851-852: 10.82 g (39)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –26     See Frolova Coinage, p. 121 and pl. X, 10–18; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 252–3 and pl. XLIV, 8–16