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Asarion - Gepaepyris Panticapaeum
| Issuer | Bosporan Kingdom |
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| Year | 37-39 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Head of Aphrodite Apatura facing right, crowned with a kalathos and enveloped in a veil, rendered in a stylized Hellenistic manner consistent with local Bosporan religious iconography. The kalathos, a cylindrical basket-shaped headdress, is clearly delineated above the deity's coiffure, emphasizing her cultic identity as the local manifestation of Aphrodite venerated at Panticapaeum. The value mark IB (numerically denoting 12 units) appears in the field behind the head, serving as the denomination indicator for this bronze asarion issue. |
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Gepaepyris ruled the Bosporan Kingdom jointly with her son Mithridates III following the death of Aspurgus around 38 AD, a regency arrangement that was almost certainly contested — Rome's interest in the region meant dynastic transitions rarely went unobserved by Claudius's court. Her independent coinage from Panticapaeum is exceptionally brief, confined to a window of two or three years before Mithridates assumed sole authority.
RPC I 1907 places this issue within a tightly sequenced group, and surviving specimens are notably scarcer than those of her co-regent son.