bpv_239325 - BOSPORUS - KINGDOM OF BOSPORUS - SAUROMATES II Unité
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Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: an 527
Mint name / Town : Bosphore, Panticapée
Metal : copper
Millesimal fineness : 200 ‰
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 14,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré et complet des deux côtés. Très beau portrait vieillissant de Sauromates II. Représentation intéressante du revers. Jolie patine vert olive foncé
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste barbu, diadémé et drapé de Sauromatès III à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’01).
Obverse legend : BASILEwS SAUROMAToU
Obverse translation : (Sauromatès roi).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aphrodite, coiffée du polos, vêtue du chiton et du peplos, trônant à gauche, tenant une pomme de la main droite et un long sceptre transversal de la main gauche ; derrière marque de valeur.
Commentary
Buste âgé de Sauromates II. Exemplaire non contremarqué.
Old bust of Sauromates II. Unmarked example
Old bust of Sauromates II. Unmarked example
Historical background
BOSPORUS - KINGDOM OF BOSPORUS - SAUROMATES II
(c. 170-211)
Sauromatès succeeded Eupator between 170 and 172. His reign of more than forty years made him associate on the coinage, Marc Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Commodus, Septimius Severus and Caracalla. He succeeded in maintaining his kingdom during the civil wars. It was Rheskuporis II (211-228) who succeeded him.
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