RPC III, 860

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 860
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Issue Bronze: fourth series, third group
Dating AD 108/15
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ϹΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ
Edition Βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου
Translation of King Sauromates
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Sauromates, right
Reverse inscription ΜΗ
Edition μηʹ
Translation 48
Reverse design wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 13.02 g
Axis 12
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 124. 3; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 255–6. 3; Anokhin 454
Specimens 16 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ A Tricarico coll.
2 2 –15     See Frolova Coinage, p. 124 and pl. XI, 10–11; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 255–6 and pl. XLV, 20, pl. XLVI, 1
16 16     Freiburg: 13957