Semis - Aspurgus

Aspurgus consolidated Bosporan rule in the early 1st century AD by simultaneously courting Roman patronage — he received citizenship and the right to rule from Augustus or Tiberius — while maintaining dynastic ties to the local Thracian aristocracy. This coin falls precisely within that transitional moment, issued during the first or second year of his reign when the kingdom was repositioning itself as a reliable Roman client state on the northern Black Sea.

The Anokhin 1389 attribution places this among the earliest of his copper issues.