RPC II, 474

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume II
Number 474
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Bosporus
City Kingdom of the Bosporus
Reign Rhescuporis II
Person (obv.) Rhescuporis II (king)
Issue Bronze: second series: second group
Dating AD 80/90 (?)
Obverse inscription ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟϹ ΙΟΥΛΙΟϹ ΒΑϹΙΛΕΥϹ ΡΗϹΚΟΥΠΟΡΙϹ
Obverse design king Rhescuporis II standing, right, left foot on prisoner kneeling; on right, trophy; on left, another kneeling prisoner, hands tied behind his back
Reverse inscription ΜΗ (in exergue)
Reverse design city wall with gate surmounted by an equestrian statue
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Axis 6, 12
Reference Frolova pp. 100–1, Anokhin 381
Specimens 25 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 146
2 2     L: 1970,0909.1
3 3 –24     see Frolova pp. 100–1 and pl. III, 21–4
25 25     R. Becker coll.