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Stater - Rhoemetalces Antoninus
| Issuer | Bosporan Kingdom (Bosporos) |
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| Year | 149 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ΒΑϹΙΛΕωϹ ΡΟΙΜΗΤΑΛΚΟΥ (Translation: [coin] of King Rhoemetalces) |
| Reverse description | Laureate head of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius facing right, rendered in the Hellenistic portrait tradition with detailed facial features and a laurel wreath. A spearhead appears in the field before the bust on some specimens. The Greek date letters ΕΜΥ appear in the lower field below the portrait, corresponding to Bosporan regnal year 445 (149 AD), enclosed within a beaded border. |
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Rhoemetalces ruled the Bosporan Kingdom as a client king under Roman authority, and this stater reflects that dependency precisely — Bosporan gold coinage of this period functioned as a local prestige issue whose legitimacy was inseparable from imperial sanction. The kingdom's position controlling grain shipments through the Cimmerian Bosporus made maintaining Roman goodwill an economic necessity, not merely a political one.
The Anokhin sequence places this among a tightly defined group, with varieties 1676 and 1677 distinguished by die alignment and minor punch details.