RPC IV.1, 3878 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 3878 (temporary)
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Sauromates II
Person (obv.) Sauromates II (king)
Dating 186–196
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ϹΑΥΡοΜΑΤοΥ (facing outward)
Edition Βασιλέως Σαυρομάτου
Translation of King Sauromates
Obverse design draped bust of King Sauromates II wearing diadem, right (to right, rosette)
Reverse inscription
Reverse design turreted Aphrodite seated, left, holding apple (and long transverse sceptre); to right, star
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 11.04 g
Axis 6, 11, 12
Reference Frolova, pp. 189–90, pl. XXXVIII.11–25 and pl. XXXIX.1–27 and pl. XL.1–5, Cop 68
Specimens 80 (19 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Moscow: Inv. 4643 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.11
2 2     Moscow: Inv. 4641 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.12
3 3     Moscow: Inv. 4642 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.13
4 4     Moscow: Inv. 4644 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.14
5 5     St Petersburg: 28525 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.15
6 6     Moscow: Inv. 4645 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.16
7 7     St Petersburg: 28625 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.18
8 8     St Petersburg: 28626 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.19
9 9     St Petersburg: 28627 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.17
10 10     Odessa
11 11     St Petersburg: 82628 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.20
12 12     St Petersburg: 28629 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.21
13 13     Odessa
14 14     St Petersburg: 28637 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.23
15 15     Moscow: Inv. 4651 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.24
16 16     St Petersburg: 28638 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.22
17 17     Moscow: Inv. 4650 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXVIII.25
18 18     Moscow: Inv. 4649 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXIX.1
19 19     St Petersburg: 28638 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXIX.2
20 20     Moscow: Inv. 4638 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXIX.3
21 21     Moscow: Inv. 4637 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXIX.4
22 22     Moscow: Inv. 4640 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXIX.5
23 23     St Petersburg: 28621 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXIX.6
24 24     St Petersburg: 28622 Frolova, p. 189, pl. XXXIX.7
25 25     St Petersburg: 28622
26 26     Moscow: Inv. 4646 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.8
27 27     St Petersburg: 28633 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.9
28 28     St Petersburg: 28634 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.11
29 29     St Petersburg: 28635
30 30     St Petersburg: 28639 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.12
31 31     St Petersburg: 28640 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.13
32 32     St Petersburg: 28641 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.14
33 33     St Petersburg: 28642 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.10
34 34     Moscow: Inv. 4639 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.15
35 35     St Petersburg: 28644 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.16
36 36     St Petersburg: 28645 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.17
37 37     St Petersburg: 28646 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.18
38 38     St Petersburg: 28647 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.19
39 39     St Petersburg: 28648 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.20
40 40     St Petersburg: 28630 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.21
41 41     St Petersburg: 28631 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.22
42 42     St Petersburg: 28632 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.24
43 43     Moscow: Inv. 4647 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.25
44 44     St Petersburg: 28657 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.23
45 45     St Petersburg: 28658
46 46     St Petersburg: 28659 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.26
47 47     St Petersburg: 28660 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XXXIX.27
48 48     St Petersburg: 28662
49 49     St Petersburg: 28650
50 50     St Petersburg: 28651
51 51     St Petersburg: 28652 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XL.1
52 52     St Petersburg: 28653 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XL.2
53 53     St Petersburg: 28654
54 54     St Petersburg: 28655 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XL.3
55 55     St Petersburg: 28556 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XL.4
56 56     Moscow: Inv. 4654 Frolova, p. 190, pl. XL.5
57 57     NY: 1944.100.41088
58 58     NY: 1944.100.41089
59 59     NY: 1953.171.417
60 60     NY: 1953.171.418
61 61     Gorny & Mosch 104 (09/10/2000), 656
62 62     P: 247
63 63     P: 249
64 64     P: 250, reverse with sceptre
65 65     ✸ P: 251, reverse with sceptre
66 66     Mu: acc. 19943
67 67     Mu: acc. 23814
68 68     V: GR 15221, reverse with sceptre
69 69     V: GR 15225 (struck on too large a flan, broken, 13.15g)
70 70     Cop: 68, reverse with sceptre
71 71     C: SNG 1615 Leake 761, Kings and Dynasts, p. 50.2 = Cattley sale 88
72 72     O
73 73     SNG Stancomb 997
74 74     SNG Stancomb 998
75 75     B: 1659, authenticity doubtful: cast
76 76     B: 1700 (ex Hinz), authenticity doubtful: cast?
77 77     B: 1920/710, authenticity doubtful: cast?
78 78     B: 1923/277 (gift of F. Moritz)
79 79     Leeds-UL: 1492
80 80     CNG Electronic Auction 123 (28/09/2005), 71, kings as 'Sauromates III', perhaps a type of its own