CNG 100, Lot: 261. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Rhescuporis II, with Elagabalus. AD 211/2-226/7. EL Stater (20mm, 7.57 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 515 (AD 218/9). BACIΛЄωC PHCKOVΠOPIΔOC, diademed and draped bust of Rhescuporis right / Laureate and cuirassed bust of Roman emperor (possibly Elagablus) right; six-pointed star to right; ЄIΦ (date) below. Frolova p. 206 and pl. XXXIV, 23-4 (as Rhescuporis III); Anokhin 634в var. (emperor draped); MacDonald 558/4 var. (same). Good VF, lightly toned.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex M. Vernon Sheldon Collection (Bowers & Merena, 9 April 1983), lot 2640.