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Stater - Kotys I Claudius and Nero
| Uitgever | Bosporan Kingdom (Bosporos) |
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| Jaar | 61 |
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| Vorm | Round (irregular) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Bare laureate head of the Roman emperor Claudius facing right, rendered in a provincial Hellenistic style characteristic of Bosporan royal coinage. The portrait displays a wreath of laurel leaves bound about the head, with finely modeled facial features including a prominent brow and strong jawline. No legend appears in the field, consistent with the Bosporan practice of issuing staters with uninscribed obverses during the joint reign of Kotys I. The flat, largely plain field surrounding the effigy is typical of hammered gold coinage from this mint. |
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| Oplage | 357 (61 AD) - ΖΝΤ |
| Aanvullende informatie |
Kotys I ruled the Bosporan Kingdom as a client king under Rome, and this stater belongs to the brief window when his reign overlapped with Nero's early principate — a period of genuine political stability before both relationships soured. The paired royal and imperial portraits on Bosporan staters were not ceremonial convention but a calculated assertion of the kingdom's position: autonomous enough to strike gold, dependent enough to advertise it.
Bosporan gold staters of this period were struck to an Attic-derived weight standard maintained with unusual consistency across the dynasty, which is why weight deviations attract immediate scrutiny from specialists.