The Η in the denomination marks this as an 8-unit bronze within the local reckoning of Caesarea on the Cimmerian Bosporus, a Greek-origin city operating under the Spartocid dynasty's successor kingdom. By the late first century BC, the Bosporan kingdom had become a Roman client state under Asander and later Dynamis, whose legitimacy rested on a complicated mixture of Thracian descent, Achaemenid connection through Mithridates VI, and Roman recognition. Coins of this period carry the weight of that political negotiation without a single Roman legend to show for it.
The Η in the denomination marks this as an 8-unit bronze within the local reckoning of Caesarea on the Cimmerian Bosporus, a Greek-origin city operating under the Spartocid dynasty's successor kingdom. By the late first century BC, the Bosporan kingdom had become a Roman client state under Asander and later Dynamis, whose legitimacy rested on a complicated mixture of Thracian descent, Achaemenid connection through Mithridates VI, and Roman recognition. Coins of this period carry the weight of that political negotiation without a single Roman legend to show for it.