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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2884371, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t know enough about the coins of the Bosporos so these two came from an unidentified box at today&#039;s show to force me to study up.&nbsp; I regret one (should have seen its problem) but like the other.&nbsp; These coins are dated by the local calendar which converts to AD by subtracting 297 from the Greek numeral on the reverse.&nbsp; The first (the one I like) appears to be king Thothorses / Diocletian year 593 or 296 AD. The centering allows reading the somewhat wild Greek legends.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]691856[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The other is (I think???) Rhadamsades / Licinius year 611 (314 AD). The off center obverse shows the word king clearly but loses most of the king&#039;s name.&nbsp; I would prefer the opposite.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]691859[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Given the year is easy to find, how is it we are to tell this is Licinius rather than Constantine?&nbsp; Bosporan kings also overlap dates but we have a clue from the legend.&nbsp; Is the club or monogram significant here?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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