bpv_282870 - KINGDOM OF THRACE - RHOEMETALCES I Demi-unité
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Price : 75.00 €
Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 11AC. - 12 AD.
Mint name / Town : Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18, mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,07 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale avec les portraits stylisés. Faiblesse de frappe sur les légendes. Patine marron foncé granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Rhoémétalcès à droite (O’).
Obverse legend : BASILEWS/ ROIMHTALKOU (Basileos Roimhtalkou).
Obverse translation : (roi Rhoémétalcès).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L.
Reverse description : Tête nue d’Auguste à droite (O°).
Reverse legend : KAISAROS SEBASTOU, (Kaisaros Sebastou).
Reverse translation : (César Auguste).
Commentary
Imitation avec une stylisation des deux portraits. Les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage ne signalent pas d’imitation.
Historical background
KINGDOM OF THRACE - RHOEMETALCES I
(11 BC - 12 AD)
Rhoemetalces I and Augustus
Rhoemetalces is the son of Kotys and had been the guardian of the children of Kotys III. It was Augustus who entrusted him with the entire kingdom of Thrace in 11 BC, where he reigned for nearly twenty-five years. He remained the royal ally of the Romans and besides himself or his wife Pythodoris, he had his protector Augustus and his wife Livia represented on his coinage. On his death in AD 12, Augustus divided the kingdom between Rhoemetalces' son, Kotys IV, and Rheskouporis III, a source of conflict that was to end with the former being assassinated by the latter. Eventually, the kingdom of Thrace became a Roman province in 46.
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