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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3028909, member: 44316&quot;]Here is a Kingdom of the Bosporus coin of Rheskuporis V (AD 314/5 - c. 342) [Some authors number him &quot;VI&quot;]:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]754555[/ATTACH] </p><p>Much of his name is on the flan. [PHC]KOVΠOPIS</p><p>The reverse date is</p><p>ΓK X which is 623 which is AD 326/7. </p><p><br /></p><p>Doug&#039;s second coin lead him to ask</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I guess he does not think the portrait is a good likeness! Fortunately that problem is solved when the coin has this date--too late for Licinius whose reign ended in 324. This reverse is of Constantine. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sear Greek Imperial 5506v.</p><p>MacDonald 682/8. Stancomb 1037.</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually we think of Roman provincial coins ending c. 276 (There are a few under Aurelian and a very few under Tacitus) except in Alexandria, Egypt, where they ended shortly after the Caesars of the first tetrarchy were promoted, that is, Alexandrian provincial coinage stopped c. 295-6. But if we cast our net wider, all the way up to the top of the Black Sea, we find these &quot;Kingdom of the Bosporus&quot; issues which continued to 338 or 339 and are common under Constantine. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to see your pieces from the Kingdom of the Bosporus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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