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Stater - Aspurgus Augustus and Agrippa
| Issuer | Bosporan Kingdom |
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| Year | 30 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed and draped bust of Aspurgus to right, rendered in a Hellenistic portrait style with finely detailed wavy hair and a short beard. The effigy fills the flan with commanding presence, the truncation of the neck visible at lower right. The field is plain and unlettered, the coin struck on an irregularly shaped flan typical of Bosporan hammered gold coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse description | Bare-headed and draped bust of Agrippa to right, portrayed with characteristic wavy hair rendered in bold relief. The Greek inscription ΒΑΡ (abbreviation for Basileus Aspurgos) appears to the left of the bust, with the regnal year numerals ϚΚΤ (year 326 of the Bosporan Era, corresponding to 30 AD) positioned below, serving as a dating formula. The style is consistent with Bosporan royal portraiture of the early 1st century AD, combining Hellenistic artistic conventions with a dynastic political message. |
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| Mint | Panticapaeum, Tauric Chersonesus, modern-day Kerch, Ukraine |
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