RPC III, 869

 

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 869
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates I
Person (obv.) Sauromates I (king)
Issue Bronze: fifth series
Dating AD 115/17–18
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
Reference Frolova Coinage, pp. 128–130. 2; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 260–1. 2; Anokhin 463
Specimens 59 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –59     See Frolova Coinage, pp. 128–130 and pl. XII, 19–31, XIII, 1–13; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 260–1 and pl. XLVII, 18–19, pl. XLVIII, 1–24