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Stater - Aspurgus Augustus and Agrippa
| Issuer | Bosporan Kingdom |
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| Year | 33 |
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| Value | Stater (1) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 329 (33 AD) - ΘΚΤ |
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Aspurgus secured his position as client king of the Bosporan Kingdom through careful alignment with Rome, and this coin commemorates that relationship explicitly — struck in the year he received formal recognition from Tiberius, it pairs his own image with that of Agrippa, who had died some two decades earlier but remained a potent symbol of Augustan authority and Roman naval power. The posthumous honor accorded to Agrippa here is a political calculation, not sentiment.
The stater's gold content reflects the Bosporan kingdom's access to Pontic trade wealth. Aspurgus would be dead within a few years, leaving a succession crisis that Rome would be forced to arbitrate.