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Stater - Eupator Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius
| Issuer | Bosporan Kingdom (Bosporos) |
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| Year | 165 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Eupator ruled the Bosporan Kingdom as a client of Rome, and the joint portrait coinage of 165 AD reflects an unusual diplomatic moment: both Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius were reigning simultaneously as co-emperors, a constitutional arrangement Rome had never formally tested at scale before. Eupator's staters acknowledged both men equally, a careful political calculation from a king whose dynasty depended entirely on Roman goodwill for its survival.
Bosporan gold staters of this period follow a long local tradition stretching back through the Mithridatic rulers, but the coinage grew increasingly debased across the second and third centuries — this 165 issue falls near the end of the reliably high-gold phase before that decline accelerated.