RPC IV.1, 3743 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 3743 (temporary)
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Eupator
Person (obv.) Eupator (king)
Issue Year ΞΥ (460)
Dating 163/4
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ΕΥΠΑΤΟΡΟϹ (facing outward)
Edition Βασιλέως Εὐπάτορος
Translation of King Eupator
Obverse design draped bust of Eupator wearing diadem, right; (to right, club)
Reverse inscription ΞΥ
Edition ξυʹ
Translation 460
Reverse design to left, bare head of Marcus Aurelius, right, to right, bare-headed bust of Lucius Verus wearing cuirass and paludamentum, left; (between, dot or spear)
Metal gold
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.74 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.25, 27–8, 30–3, 36 and pl. XXVII.2, 4, 6, BMC 6$
Specimens 12 (4 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     St Petersburg: 807 Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.25
2 2     ✸ Mu: acc. 23811 Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVII.6
3 3     St Petersburg: 806 Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.27
4 4     St Petersburg: 808 Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.28
5 5     St Petersburg: 810 Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.30 (rev.)
6 6     St Petersburg: 812 Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.31 (rev.)
7 7     St Petersburg: 811 Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.32
8 8     St Petersburg: 813 Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.33
9 9     L BMC 6, pl. XV.7 = Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.36
10 10     B: I-B Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVII.2
11 11     Cahn 84 (1933), 333 = Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVII.4
12 12     G: II, 231, no. 3 SNG I, no. 1038