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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 25582960, member: 44316&quot;]Everybody omits coins of the Kingdom of the Bosporus from the &quot;latest provincial coins&quot; consideration, but they do have the Roman emperor on them. </p><p><br /></p><p>They are dated, like this one of Rheskuporis IV (239-276). It has ΘNΦ below the two busts on the reverse. That is five hundred fifty nine which is 262/3 AD, allowing us to identify the emperors as Valerian and Gallienus. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1637962[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>19 mm. 7.44grams.</p><p>MacDonald 618, page 11.</p><p><br /></p><p>Examples under Constantine are common with King Rheskuporis V (304-342). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1637963[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>19-18 mm. 7.46 grams.</p><p>You might not recognize the emperor from the portrait (You don&#039;t?), but the date is BKX = 622 = 325/6 AD, so that is Constantine being crowned by an eagle.</p><p>MacDonald 681/4. </p><p><br /></p><p>The next one has date ΓKX = 623 = 326/7, also Constantine.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1637964[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>19 mm. 7.30 grams.</p><p>MacDonald 682/8</p><p><br /></p><p>For more about coins of the Kingdom of the Bosporus, see here:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Bosporus/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Bosporus/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Bosporus/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Because the minting authority was the king, albeit he was a client of Rome, I guess it is fair to say these are not &quot;Roman provincial&quot; coins. But, they are pretty close![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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