RPC VII.2, 1837

 

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Coin type
Volume VII.2
Number 1837
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Ininthimeos
Person (obv.) Ininthimeos (king)
Issue Year ƐΛΦ = 535 (group 2: crude style)
Dating AD 238/9
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ΙΝΙΝΘΙΜΗΥΟΥ
Nominative Rex Ininthimeus
Obverse design laureate and draped bust of Ininthimeus, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription ΕΛΦ
Reverse design laureate head of the Roman emperor, right; before, club
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 19 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference Frolova I, pp. 233–4, pl. LX; Anokhin² 2015; MacDonald, Bosporus 596
Specimens 12 (1 in the core collections)
Note Frolova I, p. 233, records 1 obv. die and 7 rev. die. Frolova identifies the Roman emperor on the rev. as “Balbinus or Gordian”.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1845,0109.61 BMC 3
2 2     CNG 100, 7 Oct. 2015, lot 272 = Kovacs 7, 15 Jan. 1987, lot 3
3 3     ✸ Gorny & Mosch 152, 10 Oct. 2006, lot 1761
4 4 –10     see Frolova I, pp. 233–4 (obv. die E, rev. dies g–o)
11 11     SNG Stancomb 1014
12 12     B. Michaux coll. = Roma EA 110, 3 Aug. 2023, lot 346