RPC IV.1, 3744 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #9

 

Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 3744 (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 (Αs with curved crossbar)
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-headed bust of Lucius Verus wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right; to right, bare head of Marcus Aurelius, left; (between, dot or spear)
Metal gold
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.66 g
Axis 12
Reference Frolova, pp. 161–2, pl. XXVI.23–4, 26, 29, 34–5, 37 and pl. XXVII.1, 3, 5
Specimens 17 (3 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Moscow: Inv. 469 Frolova, p. 161, pl. XXVI.23
2 2     St Petersburg: 804
3 3     A
4 4     Moscow: Inv. 470 Frolova, p. 161, pl. XXVI.24
5 5     St Petersburg: 805
6 6     St Petersburg: 803 Frolova, p. 161, pl. XXVI.26
7 7     Moscow: Inv. 471 Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.29
8 8     Moscow: Inv. 472 Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.34
9 9     ✸ P: 209, obverse with club Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.35
10 10     B: v. Gansauge 1873 Frolova, p. 162, pl. XXVI.37
11 11     Naville [Geneva] 5 (18/06/1923), 2362 = Frolova, p. 160, pl. XXVII.1
12 12     St Petersburg: 809 Frolova, p. 160, pl. XXVII.3
13 13     Otto Helbing Nachfolger (1928), 4025
14 14     Moscow Pushkin: 525 Frolova, p. 160, pl. XXVII.5
15 15     NY: 1944.100.41074 (in NY wrongly labelled as '1944.100.41072', reverse with dot)
16 16     Gorny & Mosch 114 (04/03/2002), 165
17 17     Münzen & Medaillen Deutschland 12 (11/04/2003), 145