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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8008735, member: 75937&quot;]Here&#039;s a similar coin, but it&#039;s unclear who is on the coin because <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/augustus-or-tiberius-pythodoris-rhoemetalkes-i-or-ii.299097/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/augustus-or-tiberius-pythodoris-rhoemetalkes-i-or-ii.299097/">experts disagree</a>. Augustus or Tiberius? Rhoemetalces I or his grandson, Rhoemetalces II? Pythodoris, the wife of Rhoemetalces I or the unnamed wife of Rhoemetalces II?</p><p><br /></p><p>RPC, the most up-to-date in terms of scholarship, attributes it to Tiberius and Rhoemetalces II.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although RPC calls the jugate busts side the obverse, it&#039;s clear from my coin that this side was the one struck by the hand-held die and the hammer; it&#039;s thus the REVERSE and I label it as such. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/rhoemetalkes-and-pythodoris-jpg.828499/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Kings of Thrace under Roman rule.</p><p>AE 24 mm, 6.88 g.</p><p>Uncertain mint of Thrace.</p><p>Obv: ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟ[ΡΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣ]ΤΟΥ, bare head of Augustus or Tiberius, right.</p><p>Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩ[Σ ΡΟΙΜΗΤΑΛΚΟΥ], jugate bust of Rhoemetalkes I or II, diademed, and queen (Pythodorus?), right.</p><p>Refs: <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1721" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1721" rel="nofollow">RPC I, 1721</a>; BMC 3.209,23; Sear 5405; Youroukova 201–3, pl. XXIV; Forrer 207.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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