RPC III, 939

 

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 939
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Rhoemetalkes
Person (obv.) Rhoemetalkes (king)
Person (rev.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΖΜΥ (447)
Dating AD 150/1
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ΡΟΙΜΗΤΑΛΚΟΥ
Edition Βασιλέως Ῥοιμητάλκου
Translation of King Rhoemetalces
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Rhoemetalces, right
Reverse inscription ΖΜΥ
Edition ζμυʹ
Translation (year) 447
Reverse design laureate head of Antoninus, right
Metal gold
Reference Anokhin 515a
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1 –2     Frolova Coinage, pp. 147–8 and pl. XX, 31–32; Frolova Monetnoe pp. 279–80 and pl. LIX, 18–19