RPC VII.2, 1838

 

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Coin type
Volume VII.2
Number 1838
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Ininthimeos
Person (obv.) Ininthimeos (king)
Issue Undated bronze coinage
Dating AD 235–40
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ΙΝΙΝΘΙΜΗΥΟΥ
Nominative Rex Ininthimeus
Obverse design confronted busts of Ininthimeus, laureate and draped, right, seen from front, and a goddess, left, wearing kalathos
Reverse inscription Β *
Reverse design goddess (Aphrodite?) seated left, holding apple (or patera?) in right hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Axis 1, 6, 11, 12
Reference Frolova I, pp. 235–6, pl. LXI–LXII; Anokhin² 2019, 2023; MacDonald, Bosporus 599
Specimens 56 (11 in the core collections)
Note Frolova I, pp. 234–5, records 12 obv. dies and 15 rev. dies.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1966.453
2 2     P: 310
3 3     P: 311
4 4     B: 18275218, 1971/56
5 5     B: 18275216, 1873/104
6 6     B: 18275221, Rauch
7 7     C: 215-1940 SNG 1621
8 8     O: Evans
9 9     O: Evans
10 10     O
11 11     V: GR 37129
12 12     Cracow SNG 517
13 13     Cracow SNG 518
14 14     Cracow SNG 518
15 15     Cracow SNG 519
16 16     Leeds-UL: 635
17 17     CNG EA 197, 15 Oct. 2008, lot 65
18 18     CNG EA 299, 27 Mar. 2013, lot 113 = M&M GmbH 20, 10 Oct. 2006, lot 170
19 19     CNG EA 335, 24 Sept. 2014, lot 62
20 20     ✸ Gorny & Mosch 181, 12 Oct. 2009, lot 1739
21 21     M&M GmbH 13, 9 Oct. 2003, lot 185 = CNG EA 222, 11 Nov. 2009, lot 155
22 22     see Frolova I, p. 235, C-b, 1, pl. LXI.17
23 23 –55     see Frolova I, pp. 234–5
56 56     SNG Stancomb 1015 = Roma EA 66, 9 Jan. 2020, lot 151