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Æ26 - Eupator
| Issuer | Bosporan Kingdom |
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| Year | 155-171 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | ΒΑCΙΛEWC EVΠΑΤΟΡΟC (Translation: `King Eupator`) |
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| Reverse lettering | MH (Translation: `48` units.) |
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Eupator ruled the Bosporan Kingdom as a client of Rome, and his coinage reflects that dependency directly — regnal years on his bronzes are counted from 154/155 AD, the date of his formal recognition by Rome rather than any local dynastic event. The kingdom's position controlling grain shipments through the Cimmerian Bosporus made maintaining Roman goodwill a practical necessity, not merely a political posture.
RPC IV.1 3755 remains provisionally assigned pending further die studies; the Online corpus for this reign is still actively revised.