RPC III, 929

 

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 929
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Rhoemetalkes
Person (obv.) Rhoemetalkes (king)
Person (rev.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΒΜΥ (442)
Dating AD 145/6
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ΡΟΙΜΗΤΑΛΚΟΥ
Edition Βασιλέως Ῥοιμητάλκου
Translation of King Rhoemetalces
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Rhoemetalces, right; in front, trident
Reverse inscription ΒΜΥ
Edition βμυʹ
Translation 442
Reverse design laureate head of Antoninus, right
Metal gold
Reference Anokhin 511
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note Average weight of 929-930: 7.76 (2)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Frolova Coinage, pp. 146–7 and pl. XX, 14; Frolova Monetnoe p. 278 and pl. LIX, 1