AV20 - Trajan ΜΡ Ε

Chersonesus — not to be confused with the Bosporan Kingdom proper — occupied an awkward position under Hadrian, who had just reorganized Roman client relationships across the Black Sea littoral following Trajan's death in 117 AD. The regnal year ΜΡ Ε (year 845 of the Pontic Era) places this issue precisely at that transitional moment, when local dynastic authority was being renegotiated under Roman supervision. Gold issues from Chersonesus are rare at any date; those bridging the Trajan-to-Hadrian transition carry that specific documentary weight.