Sestertius - Rhoemetalces

Rhoemetalces ruled the Bosporan Kingdom as a client king under Roman suzerainty, his authority ultimately dependent on imperial goodwill from Rome. The Bosporan coinage of this period occupies an awkward monetary position — nominally independent issues from a kingdom that was, in practice, an extension of Roman frontier policy along the northern Black Sea coast. The regnal copper issues of this reign are catalogued across multiple reference systems precisely because no single authority has resolved the series convincingly, with Anokhin, MacDonald, and the Bosporos corpus each offering slightly divergent attributions for overlapping types.