RPC III, 897

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 897
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Cotys II
Person (obv.) Kotys II (king)
Issue Bronze: second group
Dating AD 125
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ΚΟΤΥΟϹ
Edition Βασιλέως Κοτύος
Translation of King Cotys
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Kotys II, right; in front, trident
Reverse inscription ΜΗ
Edition μηʹ
Translation 48
Reverse design wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 10.90 g
Reference Frolova Coinage, pp. 137. 3 corr. and p. 138. 2; Frolova Monetnoe p. 269. 3 corr. and p. 270. 2; Anokhin 485 and 487
Specimens 17 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –16     See Frolova Coinage, p. 137 corr. and p. 138, pl. XVI, 11–12 and 18–23; Frolova Monetnoe p. 269 and p. 270, pl. LII, 25, LIII, 1, 8–14
17 17     ✸ Künker 333, 16 Mar. 2020, lot 11 (ex Hirsch 236, 2004, lot 1826; Grün 53, 2010, lot 88)