RPC — Type: 3480


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Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3480 json ttl rdf xml epidoc
Volume	VIII
Number	— (unassigned; ID 3480)
Province	Northern Black Sea
Region	Bosporus
City	Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign	Rhescuporis V
Person (obv.)	Rhescuporis V (king)
Issue	Year ƐΜΦ = 545
Dating	AD 248/9
Obverse inscription	ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ΡΗϹΚΟ(Υ)ΠΟΡ(ΙΔΟϹ)
Edition	Βασιλέως Ῥησκουπορίδος
Translation	of King Rhescuporis
Obverse design	laureate and draped bust of Rhescuporis V, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription	ΕΜΦ
Edition	εμφʹ
Translation	545
Reverse design	laureate head of the Roman emperor, right; before, star
Metal	debased silver
Average diameter	20 mm
Average weight	7.46 g
Axis	1, 12
Reference	Frolova II, p. 136, pl. III–IV; Anokhin² 2038
Specimens	30 (4 in the core collections)
Note	Frolova II, p. 136, records 7 obv. dies and 10 rev. dies.

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	More
—	—	L: 1844,0425.72	BMC 3	20	7.73	12	Show
—	—	B: 18275230, Fox		20	7.73	12	Show
—	—	V: GR 15246		19.4	7.40	12	Show
—	—	V: GR 15245		19.7	7.16	1	Show
—	—		CNG EA 110, 16 Mar. 2005, lot 109	20	7.61		Show
—	— ✸		CNG EA 221, 28 Oct. 2009, lot 434	19	7.12	1	Show
—	—		see Frolova II, pp. 132–3				Show