RPC III, 867

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 867
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Issue Bronze: fourth series, fifth 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 city wall with gate flanked by two towers; at right, prisoner kneeling with hands tied in back
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 9.90 g
Axis 12
Reference Frolova Coinage, p. 127. 4; Frolova Monetnoe p. 259. 4; Anokhin 461
Specimens 5 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –3     See Frolova Coinage, p. 127 and pl. XII, 16–17; Frolova Monetnoe p. 259 and pl. XLVII, 15–16
4 4     R. Becker coll.
5 5     ✸ R. Hoppensteadt coll.