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Stater - Rhescuporis V
| Issuer | Bosporan Kingdom |
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| Year | 620 (324) |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Laureate and draped bust of a Roman emperor, identified as either Constantine I or Licinius I, facing right, rendered in the conventional style adopted by the Bosporan kingdom to acknowledge Roman imperial suzerainty. To the right of the bust, an eagle is depicted seated left atop a globe, holding a wreath in its beak — a symbol of victory and divine sanction. The abbreviated Greek legend KX appears in the field, functioning as a date or denomination mark in the Bosporan regnal era system. The composition reflects the close political and iconographic relationship between the Bosporan kingdom and the Roman Empire during the early fourth century AD. |
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Rhescuporis V ruled the Bosporan Kingdom as a Roman client king during a period of acute pressure from Gothic and Herulian raiding across the northern Black Sea littoral. By the mid-3rd century, the once-prosperous kingdom had been reduced to issuing coinage in copper washed with silver — a debasement so thorough that the "stater" designation had become essentially nominal, preserving the name of a denomination long after its metallic reality had collapsed.
The Bosporan era date of 620 corresponds to 323–324 AD, placing this coin in the final documented years of the kingdom's independent coinage tradition before it disappears from the historical record entirely.